”Ray couldn’t fault her. It was a dangerous business they were a part of in more ways than just the law. In the type of high-end acquisitions Mage...ta dealt in, the field was narrow and competition very brutal. In fact, one of Magenta’s lawyers just had his wife and his paralegal kidnapped by one of their more aggressive competitors. Ray was actually glad Janice had taken some initiative.“What other mommy skills do you have?” Ray smiled.Cassandra was exhausted and in pain. Not serious pain, just. We drove all over. We went over to Cedar Point, up to Cleveland. We saw the Indians twice." And after I left?" Well, not so much." You just mowed lawns and did yard work and when your Dad retired you took over the business. You never went more that 5 miles from Greenwood center. You never dated another woman."He looks silently at the refrigerator door."I remember I asked you what you did for amusement, you remember, at like our 20th class reunion. You said you'd joined the local chorus, had. He had bright blue penetrating eyes, although they were not staring at me, I could feel the look that would be given off by them, knowing they would make my legs melt. As my eyes moved further down his body, I noticed how tanned he was. He was wearing a smart suit. With the jacket buttoned up, a big loose knot on the tie, all worn with tidy black trousers. His shoes were brown and suede, a sense of style I thought to myself. As I brought my face back to look at him, I noticed he was looking. Most of the dead garnishing the forward slope of the ridge were French, with the British dead lying mainly on the ridge. The dead of some British regiments still lay in the alignment they had been placed to receive cavalry, when they had been hit by shattering artillery fire from La Haye Saint.To my shame I felt more sorrow for those horses killed and maimed then I did for the men. Several horses had survived the night, and to see the imploring, and reproachful, look in their eyes, as if asking.