I’ve never mentioned our sex life to the girls and I’m not about to start now.” I bent and kissed the top of her head. “I’m sure you’ll so...t it out with Helen.” “You don’t mind?” “Don’t mind what? That you’re unsure about what’s happening between you and a friend?” I shook my head. “Believe me, Veronica, I knew something was happening when you came on to me. I just didn’t know what had sparked it. Now I do. What happens next is up to you. All these thirty-odd years we’ve been good partners and. How long ago?" Ended about two years ago. Started about two years before that, more than one guy, but the last one was the worst." How bad?"Sophia reached into her pocketbook, and withdrew that picture. She handed it to Gwen. "Oh, about that bad."Gwen gasped. "Oh my sweet Jesus." She blinked, and handed the picture back to Sophia. "Sophia, you are one of the most put-together young ladies I have ever met. Recovery to the degree that you seem to have is very, very rare. I hate to do the shrink. He was sick and my mother wanted me to come as soon as I could. She scared me so I just took the time from work as a personal emergency and scheduled three days with them. Page said she would stay in the city at the apartment and work on her upcoming shows, but to call her if I needed her. Shortly after that visit, we took our time together and booked two weeks just for ourselves.Then came the announcement of her pregnancy and the next seven and a half months were pleasantly busy. I put my. They were breaking open the basket of coins and kicking those in the tent and I murmured. In the story I was telling a dozen shining elves were fighting orcs.They turned and threw daggers and the four men screamed. The men fell and clutched the daggers as I moved to them. I checked Ivy and the other people first while the four men writhed around screaming. I bent and yanked out daggers as I moved through them and then gestured, “roll over!”I whispered and cord woven from grass slithered in and.