We were taken to the emergency room, and several nurses milled about, fretting over Chloe and bandaging her face.I heard the purr of Mr. Woodhouse's e...gine. He didn't speak.Soon, Lana arrived, and a nurse escorted her into our little room. When Chloe saw her distraught face, she insisted, "I'm fine, Aunt Lana!" Yes, good, very good. They say you'll be fine. No, I'm worried about the girls who went into Woodhouse's place. I haven't heard back from them."I glanced at Chloe."He seemed to know they. I held Karen and told her I would be home and soon, less than four months and we'd together again. She drove me to the airport and hugged me tight at the boarding gate and told me to come back to her and not in a box or she'd kill me. I saw her eyes were watery and kissed the top of her head and told her I'd be back before she missed me. I waved from the gateway and then turned and boarded the plane.Getting back into ROC and then into DRC made for an almost audible click when the shuttle helo. In his car, watching TV, etc. She told me that she always had to swallow his loads so it would not get on any clothing and be detected by her parents.Then her boyfriend went off to college at a school that was about 90 minutes from her house. They kept dating but did not see one another as often. Only on weekends if that. She discovered that her boyfriends sister had a friend that also went to the same college so she became “friends” with this girl and she would tell her parents that she was. ” Mom and Dad must have understood Azee’s little game because they just smiled.For a while, everybody talked about what they could do to help. I had been worried about convincing both families but my worries seemed wasted. Maybe both families had already made up their minds that Alex and I were perfect for each other.Dinner was great and I’m not bragging about the cooking. Everybody else did that. I’m talking about how good it was to sit around the folding table on their back porch, everybody.