Something so deep, so profound, and so special that it overrode any despair or terror in her heart. Alexa couldn't understand it but she somehow felt ...he had always known him - strange, it was almost as if ... She suddenly began to wonder if the silly romantic stories Aunt Faye loved to read might just be true - that there really could be such things as love at first sight. Ohh, it didn't make any sense - she was so confused and uncertain and tired and cold and ... and she really REALLY needed. So, this is what I surmised;She was fucking other men. She was a very sexual woman and I couldn’t be enough, especially when she was away for work, so she was just filling the void. The sex with other men was not making love. Just like the men at school, she was just getting her rocks off; that was it. She wasn’t doing it around town, only out of town on trips, so none of our friends would will ever find out. At least, God, I hoped they never found out. So, there would be no humiliation like I. However, we need to be getting back. Like it or not you still have that speech to make." Thanks for reminding me," Karen said but her voice was lighter. "No, seriously, thank you, you're very special and Mel's a very lucky girl to have you." I'm lucky to have Mel too," Lucy replied loyally. "Now come along or we'll be missed."And, as they returned to the pub, Karen did feel better. She still wasn't going to enjoy herself and she would still leave as soon as she could but Lucy had made her feel. He’d had a sleepless night after a fight with his partner (which coffee wouldn’t have affected in any way) and after drifting off to sleep finally about four o’clock he slept through his alarm and wouldn’t have been up at all if he hadn’t heard the maid coming in. So he’d stopped at the first Starbucks he’d driven past on route from his Brentwood home to the studio where the television show was being filmed. ‘Yes.’ The first whisperer assured him, exchanging an excited grin with her friend. .