Robert and Larry were setting up the barbeque grill. I noticed some other people arriving that I didn’t know. Henry had come and he and Nancy were s...tting up chairs in the back yard. When I went downstairs Larry had begun grilling steaks and burgers. An older man came out and Robert introduced him as his Uncle Lee. He told me he was one of Mary’s brothers. ‘Nice to meet you Sir. I’m Joey, I’m renting Robert’s old apartment.’ ‘Mary has mentioned you. She says you’re almost like a second son to. I try to return to my book, but my mind is elsewhere, following the sound of The Angel as she moves between the stacks, then I realise I haven't heard her for a couple of minutes, she was in the travel section and now there is just silence, the sort of silence that is impossible to ignore.In an instant I'm back in my parents garden, the scent of roses my mother held for me to sniff, their soft, velvety petals brushing my nose and cheek transporting me there in a flash; and I know she is behind. It will be another first for me, too.’ ‘Oh. So that means that I can find out and do as I please!’ She grinned impishly. ‘Yes, it does,’ he said. She moved off his lap and took his glass from him. ‘Let me look at you now,’ she said. She took his penis in her hands and felt its warmth and texture. The foreskin was still partially around the tip but as she fondled him it slipped off. She felt the end with her fingertips, lightly, and smeared the drop of clear liquid on top around the glans. ‘I. Gingerly wiping the dust off of the frame, she couldn’t help but laugh. The picture revealed her and her late mother. The mother she had loved and given up everything but her own life to protect. Cloud didn’t regret her choices. Given the chance, she’d go through it again if it would mean saving her mother. How many years Cloud had lived with the abuse her stepfather had dealt out, she didn’t quite remember. But she did remember, clear as day, when this picture had been taken. It had been a.