We loved both of you as brothers, so it didn’t matter to us who would end up together. We wanted our big brothers to be our boyfriends, and lovers.�...�“Where do Charlotte and Fredrika fit in?” Fred asked, with me interested in the answer as well.“Oh, they want to be part of it, but...”“What does that mean, part of it?” I interrupted.“They said that could be ‘our kids,’ when the time was right. And after we had our own kids, they could be babysitters to their nieces and nephews.”“Wait a minute, at. But as the pattern continues, as the work became manageable I began to dream of the dressing. I replaced the panties first at a little store that was just opening. The panties were these little white lace things that looked great but did not feel great. About a month later I bought a couple pairs of panties and a bra that matched one pair of the red satin panties. I also picked up( at a different store) a couple pairs of pantyhose, one black and one nude. I had taken several business trips to. Shelby shook her hand across the table. “Now, I get the joke.”Paige stiffened fractionally. “Sorry?”Shelby looked at Max. “Simon tried to convince me you’d slept with Taylor Swift. I see the resemblance ... in the face.” Paige relaxed. Max tensed. He smelled a put-down coming.If it was coming, it was interrupted by another young woman coming to the table holding a tray with coffee and food. She sat next to Shelby, pushed her hair back out of her face. “Hey, Max.”“Tiffany. You stayed the night?”. She slung it over her shoulder, crossing the sheath of her sword to keep the lumpy bottles from slamming into her back as she moved. Then it was back the way she came.Adela managed to make it back to the hospital’s lobby without incident, but there her luck ran out. She had already stowed her sword, having mistakenly decided that the ruins held no more danger for her, and was humming an old traveler’s song as she headed for the door. Her only warning was a blur of movement at the edge of her.