The Senator sat down and looked at his co-conspirators; it was a hard word to use for a politician with the money to buy himself."Emil," he said to th... man by the window. The pain in Emil's eyes was not hidden when he turned and sat in the last available chair."How is your youngest daughter?" the quiet man asked the Senator."Afraid!" the Senator barked. The quiet man simply nodded and looked to Emil."Catherine Stewart was my lover," Emil said suddenly.The quiet man nodded thoughtfully. The. There were no bells ringing in my ears and no birds suddenly appeared to circle over our heads. At least, I don’t think so. What I do know is that the moment I touched that soft pink mouth, I forgot all the reasons why I shouldn’t be doing this. Amy’s arms wrapped around my neck and I hugged her tightly to me. When we finally finished the lip lock, her cheeks were flushed and both of us sounded like we’d just realized there wasn’t enough oxygen in the room. ‘Is it always like this,’ Amy. For the first time in months, I was going to sleep sated instead of frustrated, and the soft susurration of his heartbeat was better than a lullaby.When I woke, I was a bit disoriented; I was no longer resting on his chest, but instead curled up with Alistair spooned behind me. My head was on his outstretched arm, his other lay loosely on my hip. The room was dark; the candles had gone out. I had no idea what time it was, and I struggled to figure out what woke me. And then Alistair twitched,. "We'd had a dog in the house from before I was born till a couple of years ago. When Mom and Dad got back from their honeymoon at Niagara Falls he gave her a wedding present - Sparky. He was just a mutt that Dad picked up at the pound. Dad used to joke about saving Sparky from Death Row. Of course, it was a couple of years before I came on the scene, but Sparky was the stuff of which legends are made. To hear my parents, he was Super Dog.Mom and Dad were living in a one room studio apartment on.