But he did love his mother and his sister fiercely and was able to overlook the drug problems that Julia had - coming to just accept it as a fact of l...fe. As he made it to the front door, he saw his mom standing with her back to him at the kitchen counter, scruitinizing a fairly large baggy of pills that Tom had put on the counter. Brian rolled his eyes as Tom made eye contact with him and loudly slapped Julias ass, grabbing a handful through her pants as he grinned smugly back at. ”“You could have talked to me and asked me. I would have been honoured to be the father of your child. You are a very attractive woman, Debbie. Why pick me and not someone else?” “I like you. You are caring and you never get angry. Sue had told me a little about you and about your relationship so I knew that you were devoted to her so I was never going to have trouble with you wanting to have an ongoing relationship with me. There are a lot of reasons.”“So when do we meet Gloria?”“You want to. How long has it been? 10 minutes? 20? 25? The goosebumps are becoming embarrassing. You can’t hide them. You can bury your flushed, blushing face into your bed; the erectile tissue causing your hairs to stand on end is quite independent of your will. Involuntary. Smooth skin becomes dimpled, each individual dimple, apparently, sensitive to the actual ridges of my fingerprints.‘Please…’I’m suddenly aware that you’re there: waiting, and that my own, selfish, hypnotic enjoyment of your skin is not. No such luck, but I was sure that Ursus, the farm manager, had to be deeply involved with the assassination attempt. He was the only person I knew of who had anything to gain by my death, much less, the death of Atrina. Also, he was in a perfect position to hire the assassins and to direct them to the right room. The problem was that I had no proof.Several other things were brought to my attention by this assassination attempt. The main point was that I had to have more men trained as guards..