“Sorry.” I said in a sweet tone. “Chloe claimed first dibs each night and my hands get sore after the first one.” I said.I wasn’t lying. My ...ands always get sore after rubbing Annie. But I was years away from that. At this point in time, Annie would be only 9 years old. So it would be 9 more years before I could see her again, with Guri’s rules.“Mom, I’ve been thinking as Josh and I were talking,” Chloe started, “I think you should give him new birthday money. It wasn’t fair that you pulled. I slumped down in the chair, not able to fight anymore against the onslaught. To this day I don’t know exactly what the transformation looked like. I must have been an amazing sight, because when my eyes opened, I saw the grass bending slightly in the wind, poking between Janet’s toes, her eyes wide as the sky on the horizon, mouth agape, hands trembling slightly. I stood and moved next to here, following her gaze to the white-capped mountains in the distance. I touched her arm with my. All she could see was an endless vista of sand and small rocks, unrelieved by any vegetation, or hills. The horizon seemed unimaginably far away. There was no movement anywhere. It was really quite disorienting to Helen, who had never been able to see much more than a hundred yards away from her in any direction except up.Helen had expected another set of prison guards to supervise the arrangements here, but there was no sign of any security. 'Anybody, ' she thought, 'could stow away on the. I stood up and said it had been a pleasure to meet him.But Jarrod insisted and he offered to walk me home.As we walked together he said that he would love to have my number and invite me for a drink sometime. I laughed, but I gave him my number instead.Before arriving home, my loving husband called me, to tell that he was still busy at his office and he would get home by midnight.Then I offered Jarrod to enter and share a warm coffee.I opened the door and as I turned to him, he leant forward.