"David interrupted her. "Don't try to make the decision for me right now. Meet Denise first. Colleen, too. They'll be the baby's primary caregivers if...Denise's so-called project ever moves forward. You have a wonderfully analytical mind, Nora. Please consider the pros and cons, discuss them with me, and we'll make the decision together. I see no need to rush the decision, either. As Mom said, it will be years before Denise's biological clock runs down. Okay?"The anger in Nora's deep-green eyes. " I was too pissed toeven reply back at him.Fade out...******Voice of Dennis Butz - Thousands of years ago there was a war inthe heavens, between the gods of old and the new arrivals. Duringthe process, the earth was almost destroyed by fire and floods asour war ran unchecked. Finally, after centuries of conflict, anuneasy peace was achieved between our two people. Both sidesrecognized they needed the other, but neither side was willing totrust the other. However, as man grew in power and. " If you were my teacher, I'd want to be there, too," he said with a lecherous grin.She smiled and pulled him along a little faster. "Tell me more about your job?" Not much to tell. I work with our sales engineers to design solutions for customers, then I work with the customers to integrate everything. It's not what I imagined doing when I was a kid, but it beats digging ditches." But you also teach martial arts, right?" Yeah," he grinned. "I work with kids more than adults, so I guess we have. In some ways, Eric was even more thrilled about what he had planned. Some of the items he had been planning on giving her Christmas night in the privacy of their own room now could be unwrapped with the rest of the presents.Eric and Shelly made the best of being snowed in. There was a fire in their condo's fireplace and a small fir tree decorated in all reds and whites the way Shelly liked. A myriad of candles flickered and glowed and the smells of evergreen and peppermint swirled through the.