In that twilight time between sleep and awake, she thought of Jimmy’s tall uncle and the grey eyes that had so captivated her that night. I must hav... been really tired from getting ready for the pageant, she thought, to have let him affect me so. She was musing about what it would be like to meet him again, when her phone rang. It took three rings for her to throw herself out of bed and trot to the phone table in the living room. “Hello” “Miss Francis please.” “This is Miss Francis.” “Miss. We’ve told you so in the past and we’re tired of having to repeat it,” Ward Blasingame said as he reached up to turn the team of buggy horses away from the lawman, causing him to release the bridle.“I’ll get to the bottom of this and I’ll come see you out at the ranch. You best keep these Indian Bastards out of my town in the meantime, or I’ll lock all of them up on charges of assault, battery, and disturbing the peace,” Town Marshal Weldon Fikes spoke in his threatening, loud voice to make. ..” Thomas tried to start. “Alright I am at a complete loss mate. You both know each other?”Mileen took her mates face in hers as she purred and rubbed her face to his. “Yes mate, when he was still an older kit. For a short time after his mother had passed, I was his companion you might say. A few months after this I met you, with a mate I was no longer able to attend to Ambrose.”“Until I am crowned I prefer that you refer to me by my earth name.” Bowing to Mileen he stated, “for the time being. Nor did she have this voluptuous or athletic look that seems to be in style these days. Though she was not an ounce overweight, she had just the beginnings love handles that she, thankfully, did not try to nip, tuck, or hide in some torturous control top. Her abdomen was not perfectly flat, but rather had the very shape that you would naturally expect on a woman of her age (37 now). She was in no way overlarge or flabby or in anyway unattractive to me. She, in my eyes, was perfect—soft, simple,.