I placed my hand over her shoulder with a smile. That smile can kill 1000 hearts of men.After a few minutes, she started talking about her husband and...tears were rolling out of her eyes. I can see the pain in her eyes and honestly I really felt sad for her. I took her face into my hands made her look straight into my eyes. I didn’t say anything just kept looking at her for a few seconds.She leaned forward and just placed her lips on my lips. That was not my first kiss but I never ever had that. The distraction of the phone could make whole hours and whole days disappear, so it was hard to say, but let’s just say it was still morning. I heard a horse whinnying and Emily pleading. It was getting closer. I crouched forward and, hunching over, made my way to the window.Coming back down the edge of the field was Emily’s horse, sans Emily. Emily was walking behind it. Every time Emily almost caught up with the horse the horse would trot a few more steps and stop in front of her, just beyond. Mercer looked at Connor then at the empty doorway then back at Connor “did I miss something?” Connor shook his head with a thoughtful frown “no more then the rest of us, shall we go in to dinner.”After dinner Lexi gave her mother a kiss on the cheek, hugged the girls bye and said she had to go, the house was saying she had company waiting on her, Allora raised an eyebrow “Mal or Tabby dropping in at this hour?” Lexi shook her head “no, it’s Tibitron” with a wave of her hand she was gone. Allora. As I sat there digging through my closet, I thought about how things had changed since almost six months before. Craig and I were still close, and everyone was still together as usual. I had talked to more and more of the gang since I had talked to Brittany, and they were all doing well. Things with Kyle were much better than things had been between Ben and I when I had left. Kyle had had a couple girlfriends, but I quickly learned from Brittany and Charlotte that those "relationships" were not.