It was usual for the family to spend Christmas at Château Blanchard, where Jean-Woodrow would also be present, on vacation from the Sorbonne.Our plan... were disrupted by a message delivered to Monmouth House requesting my presence at the Foreign Office.I admit I was surprised to be summoned. I had no contacts with anyone working at the Foreign Office, and other than I had recently been in France had not been anywhere ‘foreign’.Lord Palmerston soon gave me the reason for my attendance. We were. The universe took my loves away, one after another. Now it seemed that the universe wanted me to protect the life of my current love. That was a task I was willing to die for.But first I had to define the enemy and the battle.It was a long, boring, tiring search, but I seemed destined to take on the devil Death and beat him in his own home. The universe seemed to be pushing me into the middle of a battle as old as time, and big as the universe itself. Why would some ... thing ... as infinite as. Randy shuffled the card cut them and shuffled them again and dealt five of them to each player who would put hand dealt them in front for Randy and others to see. Each of them had five articles of clothing. The shoes and socks were counted as one. The shirt was one and shorts the third leaving only the bra and underwear. After the card were dealt Cindy had pair of kings, Sharon had pair of fives, Sharon had three threes and Gwen had nothing at all and took her shoes and sox off. On the next. That was far beyond our sex life, which consisted of my turning her sleeping body on its side in the mornings on those weekends she was home and sticking my cock in her unresponsive cunt for a few insipid minutes while I fantasized about someone else far away and long ago. I found myself thinking that perhaps this is all that most people ever get out of life. I realized that I was no longer a young man, yet I could not accept that this was all that was left. It would have not gone on much.