"I smiled at him. I really do love him."Yes you will," I said calmly, reasonably. "It's worse now. This past weekend ... well, it's worse now. You can...t love me now. You love who I was. I think she's gone now. They killed her."He held me close and said, "I know about this weekend. Well, I know about most of it. I don't care. I already learned my lesson. I know you were hurt, badly. You have been damaged mentally and physically. We'll work at it. You'll get better. We'll get better. I won't let. Thomas was always a handsome man, and, even in his youth, one who had looked after himself and his body; often exercising to keep his body fit. He had married into the aristocracy, in fact, he had married the youngest daughter of the Duke who owned the estate upon which he had grown up. He and Eleanor were very well matched. Despite the disparity of their births, they were both intelligent, and, both had ideas on sexual activity and matching sex drives that would have been considered quite. We had to stop each time the searching helicopters returned, but finally made it within two hundred meters of the team on this side of the summit. Cooper and I held a whispered conversation and he nodded at me after passing out orders to the others in our group.The two snipers and I targeted the radioman and the team members at the top of the hill while everyone else targeted the five-member lookout team two hundred meters above us. “Click ... click ... click ... click,” we heard over our com. Last thing I remembered hearing was Jori offering Ivy another drink, then I was out for a few hours. I remember waking up around four in the morning, alone and thirsty. I went to grab a drink and thought the house was empty until Jori snuck up on me in the kitchen. He was in gym shorts and no shirt and asked how I was feeling. When I confessed I felt like shit he told me to go back to bed and he’d let Ivy know I’d got up. When I asked where she was, he just said they were hanging out, but I.