After each failure, Tom had managed to mute their obsessions whenever he was not around them. Still. he knew if he came back into their lives the obse...sion would return with a vengeance. These women would do anything to make him happy. This happiness would come at the expense of any other relationship they had since formed in their lives, no matter how stable.It had saddened Tom that he could not pursue a relationship with one of these women. They were unable to give him the one thing he. Flashback – Tatiana – At the hospitalI was heartbroken! I had wrongly assumed Ben was unattached and then he got this incredible bouquet of roses from his 'secret lover'! I had taken a chance and for once thought Ben might have been different than other men, especially Russian men, but...An overhead page delivered me from my sadness! Ben was missing from his room and the whole hospital was placed on alert to locate him immediately! Oh great! What sort of new silly thing did he decide to do?I. I stay in this bent over position for what seems like hours listening to Enigma play over again. I’m getting light headed because I have been bent over so long, when I hear the door open and what sounds like footsteps approaching me. With no warning a flash of hot red pain sears my ass and I cry out. I gulp air to breath past it when another slap of pain hits me even harder than the first. My lightheaded and muddled brain is confused as I realize that someone, whom I assume is the Commander, is. "Tory, you really do look beautiful." Mitch approached Tory and presented her with her corsage."Why thank you, sailor. You don't look too bad yourself." Tory reached up, gave Mitch a kiss on his cheek, and then accepted the corsage from him. The couple left soon after that since chaperones needed to meet at the hall before the students began arriving.When all the chaperones had arrived, Tory introduced Mitch to everyone, including her girlfriend Terri Larson. Mitch was pleased when he got to.