"Skylar was watching closely at this new turn in the conversation."Good," I said, "Skylar is going to stay with me tonight and tomorrow." Lucky you!" ...oann said to Sky, "Your secret is safe with me." I believe you, and you are such a beautiful woman!" Sky replied.Now I knew Skylar was lit-up when she started talking like that."Not half as gorgeous as you are." We'll call it even," Skylar replied with a wink."Deal." Jo, I was telling Sky what a wonderful massage you give. I think she would like. "I acquiesced to the superior female logic, "How about when we get to Oregon City, while we're waiting to file our claims?"Corrie hesitated and then agreed, "That should be possible. We'll tell the men that we're making a quilt for Louise and her baby. Then she looked at Louise, "Since we were going to do that anyway, this is just a good excuse for the women to talk to Alex."Then they began to talk about babies and raising children and other items about which I had little interest. That was. We swam in the pool, ate pizza and drank sodas. Mom had bought a cake with both mine, and my brother's names on it as well as ice cream.By the time the party broke up, there were only four of us left, my brother, his friend Kevin, Cindy and me. We were still divided for a while, but finally joined into one group.I had known Kevin for several years. He and Eddie played soccer together and had been teammates for as long as they'd known each other. I had never paid much attention to Kevin in the. "I said, "I don't understand it either, but I think that a part of growing up is letting people live their own lives without feeling obligated to tell them how things should be done. Well, that's over and done with. Let's get back to the business at hand."We switched back to our previous disguise, I hesitate to call them cover clothes. Babs looked as luscious and desirable as ever, but she had a facial expression that killed the effect. "Honey, relax. You are going to blow our cover by looking.