She'd acted earlier out of her desperation not to lose him but now it had happened anyway. She felt some of the hurt that Claire had shared with her, ...lmost unable to withstand it. Unlike the physical pain from when she was damaged, this was an internal pain that was blistering in its intensity. She wailed piteously, tears flooding from her eyes and distorting her vision. Greg watched the display with a mixture of detachment and utter incomprehension.Greg felt cheated of his love, angry at her. ? Trish smiled as they got to their feet. Trish then remembered that riding a bike to school in a skirt was like magic to her new body just as well. ?He was a real gentleman at dinner and not so much a gentlemen in his car afterwards.??You go girl.? Monica chuckled as the cheerleading captain started them off in their practice routine of flips, tumbles and jumps. She was reminded of how much her bra straps dug into her shoulders when the knees of the human pyramid added to her pain. ?Trish. Look at the three of them, standing there. I don’t see three girls, I see three young women, waiting for their man.”Both fathers reluctantly nodded at the reality they faced. Earl had walked over to join us and heard Elroy’s last question. “Very good,” Earl said. “Elroy, you’ll have the documents ready for signing by Thursday, then?”“I’ll have them ready tomorrow. But I know you won’t be back in town until Thursday afternoon.” He sighed. “I suppose I ought to go break the bad news to Emily. She watched the harsh muscle across his shoulders, exposed by the open neck shirt. His form was perfect, his skin dark, his arms and chest clearly outlined beneath the thin cotton. His jaw was set, the muscle at his temple pounding with his heart beat. Suddenly she realised that he was by far the better man, she almost smiled with the ecstasy at this discovery. What man could possibly endanger her husband? He was going to kill the Colonel dead, of this she was sure. She tried to emulate the.