”Oh shit, I thought. He’s come to make a collection after all. “Thanks, why don’t you send him back.”Gino came into my office. “The Don sa...d to tell you not to worry about the collection thing. He would also like you to continue doing the books for Tony’s businesses at the same price you negotiated with Tony.”“You mean the hourly rate I told Tony about?” I asked without thinking.“No, the special rate when you last saw him.”“I had hoped that someone else might take over the accounting.”“Well,. ”“You have a baby. Whoa.”“She's a grown woman. At least that's what she thinks. 21 and can't tell her anything.”“I’ve known you for how long?”“Too long.”“And I’ve never met, Amelia is it?”“My mother and grandparents raised her back at home. I was looking at the Rhodes and a Fulbright and… We made the best decision.”“Do you regret it?”“Never. I’ll always be Amelia’s bio mom, and Jed loves that she calls him Uncle Stepdad. One Christmas, when she was probably in middle school, Amelia asked him if. Alice was dressed in a beige tank-top and khaki shorts, and Trish wore a spaghetti-strap sundress which showed the straps of her swimsuit tied around her neck. ‘Can I play on the playground, just a little while?’ Cindy begged her mother, who smiled and kissed the child. ‘Trish, I want you and Duncan to take your sister to the playground for a while before we begin the baseball, okay?’ The children nodded agreeably and each grabbed a hand, skipping the child across the parking lot to the. I had been working since 8 o'clock that morning and for some reason my thoughts kept going back to the weekend before when my boyfriend Rob and I had spent the whole Saturday in bed having great sex. He's such a stud and he always makes me crazy with lust when we decide to spend the day under the covers.Rob had been away all week on a trip back east to visit his ailing father. And I couldn't get the memory of his big stiff weenie out of my mind. I could envision it in all its glory; the way it.