"Thanks, Sweetie. I appreciate all the good work." I'll do it again if I get another kiss." Maybe that's a deal."I bubbled inside with the nice words ...nd the kiss. Sitting next to him on the way home made me ready to jump him as soon as we arrived, but it was not to be.Mom said, "Okay, Bradford, you're home. I know you need some space to get settled in. Your mail is in that large box. Cynthia sorted out all the junk, but there's still a bunch left."He kissed her. "Thanks again, Love. I. Elaine looked up at Alex. His expression was unreadable. She noticed that his eyes were a dangerously seductive green, yet forced herself to look away. When he had replied to her remark about Sir Jennings, something within her stirred. She wished not to admit it, but it seemed that she had a new temptation, Lord Alexander Dorne. ‘The dance has finished,’ Elaine heard Alex murmur. Horrified, she quickly dropped her arms. She had been clinging to the gentleman like a child reluctant to leave his. I looked at the other women and they all had smiles on their faces. I looked back at Inez just as Diane spoke up, "You love her, don't you? You have fallen for Inez hook line and sinker, but you have been so afraid that she wouldn't return your love, that you have had to act as if it didn't matter. That's what is going on, isn't it? You're scared to express your true feelings because you don't believe that they will be returned."I felt trapped. Diane had seen through me and I didn't know what. He had been face down in the water and I pulled him up on the bank as far as I could and began doing CPR. I had no idea if it would work, but I knew this guy. I was not going to lose him if I could help it.It was no use. I had pulled my cell phone out of the bag I carried on my shoulder with my ID and keys. I called 911 between working on his chest and breathing into his mouth. I don't know if I was doing it right or not. I was just doing what I had learned years before when I was in school. No.