“As long as she has complete bed rest everything should be fine.” Peter stated.“I umm...” Luca cleared his throat. “I thought I lost her onc.... I went off the deep end.” He found a seat and sat. He put his hands to his face. “I don’t know if I could go through that again. If anything happens to our baby she will be devastated! She loves that child more than her own life! How do you prepare yourself for something like this?”None of them had an answer.“All you can do is believe they both will be. As you see, we have turned the electric power off from most of the house except the kitchens, and that is only for the safety of the staff who are presently preparing the post mid-night feast. As I said before, we have fasted today from dawn and that will end at the middle of the night. As for the lighting, that is why it is candles only for the whole of the three days and nights. The ... body ... is first stripped, washed and anointed with aromatic oils, then redressed in the clothes he or she. I never saw Hazel with anybody in what might be termed an intimateencounter, nor did she ever make any kind of pass at me. Which was ashame, for she was a very attractive woman in a slender, very organisednever a stray hair or laddered tights way that I liked. She was alwaysperfectly correct and well mannered and whenever I was close by her Ifound myself straining for the edge of her perfume of the sound herpencil skirt made slipping over her thighs. I think I may have been alittle in love with. “Like I said, I thought there was no chance. Anyway, I was talking to Autumn and she had looked pretty good all week and I just, uh, I asked her if she wanted to be with me.”Jen was processing what I was saying, then looked a little confused.“Wait, Autumn was there with me after Lea kicked everyone out. How is that possible?”I sighed and looked at her again. “It wasn’t after all that happened. It was before.”She looked a little shocked and looked at me accusingly. “And what happened?”“Nothing,”.