As I read about it, I was certain that sanity would prevail. Obviously, the great powers could not go to war on this slim provocation. But the stated ...easons were not the real reasons and Europe blundered into a ghastly war with the old Dynastic powers of the center sure they could wipe out these democratic upstarts. The Hohenzollern and Habsburgs had never accepted the revolutions and truly believed they could turn back the clock in Europe.Again, I was made wealthy both in the transportation. Colleen contacted the local mortuary, and got them to pick up Carol, Joan, and Jill for burial. I did not wish to view the bodies before cremation, and Colleen just smiled and nodded sadly when I said to have the inurnment immediately.I was in a very bad spot. With no idea what relatives existed, I wanted to remain out of touch, out of sight, and out of mind until everyone that thought they were owed a viewing, funeral, and graveside service, found other things to concentrate on. Officially, I. She had never wanted to be abandoned again. Now she was a widow. Expecting a child. Again she was alone. No one was with her.That was the core of her despair. She didn't want to be alone but there was no one she wanted. There was no one who could take Bob's place. No one.For now Jason was being a Saint. He was her strength. He was helping her through all of this. She deeply appreciated his help and yet, he suffered the same loss. Bob, his father, was gone too.If there was anything that she. No woman could keep him for long, he loved the pleasure women gave him toó much to settle for just one. There was a hunger for love in him he did not even know himself, just because it had taken up his whole being and he took himself for granted, just as he took others and whatever emotion he arose in them. Those who disliked him remembered him as a monster, which in fact he was, and those who still loved him thought of him as a lonely child trying to make up for a loveless childhood, something.