I grabbed Sue's hand. "Come out in the hall with me."We went outside. "Mom, you've been running yourself ragged since lunch yesterday. I know I fought...Doctor Bradley when he made me go home and take a shower, but it was exactly what I needed. Les is due to wake up in another 2 or 3 hours and I know you won't want to leave her after she wakes up. Why don't you go home and clean up and relax a little and then come back so you can be refreshed when she wakes up? I'll call you right away if. "She stared at him as the full horror of her position sank in, and really did burst out crying.Sinking to the floor she hugged his legs and sobbed, "Not that. Not again." Stop that noise now," ordered the Emir, "And stand up."When she had gathered herself together and was standing before him in abject misery he started again."You have no papers and no legitimate place in England as the mistress of a dead man. Here you will be in some harem or other. You could be in mine if you are prepared to. "Financially, I mean. I didn't have any skills, and there wasn't anything coming in from Ross -- that was his name, Ross McCarty."But at the time, I thought -- it seemed like -- Juniper was ... fine. I mean, it was like she had weathered it, you know? And later, when Franklin came into our lives, well, I was afraid of how she might react to that -- to there being another man around. A black man at that."But she seemed fine. She was real positive about Franklin right from the start. So that. Silent, sleepily groans join the rhythmical splats of the raindrops against the glass surface while the bed sheets fold and unfold over your body. An overwhelming flash of lightning fills the bedroom with pure light, washing over your sleeping figure, casting shadows on the wall. Your eyes open slightly, softly, slowly; as the room fills once more with pure, heavenly light, accompanied by the far, far away roar of the raging storm. You arch your back, lifting high upon the mattress, starting.