We moved slowly toward her bedroom. As we stood quietly beside her bed, I kissed her once again passionately. I began to slowly and carefully remove h...r clothes as she did the same for me. I caressed her bare flesh savoring the warmth and satiny smoothness of her skin. I remembered our first time together and how shy and innocent I had been. I silently thanked Eve for taking me on that wondrous adventure of learning how to touch and treat and enjoy a woman’s body and how to stroke her ego as. . or the energy."She seemed to stop herself from continuing down that path. Smiling ruefully at us, she apologized, "I'm sorry I said that. It's just that, well, you," and she pointed her chin right at me, "represent everything that is wrong with the stereotypical black man." She raised her hands to prevent us from jumping all over that statement."You work hard, you stay home, you are raising not one, but two children and neither one of them are yours. You are not promiscuous, ignoring the fact. I huddled in a ball, frightened as usual, while the rest of my companions decimated the little group of mercenaries. We got the address to Marjolaine's hideout, and Alistair rushed over to me to make sure I was okay. Which, of course I was – it's hard to get hurt when you lay down and cry every time violence breaks out. I was embarrassed; he thought it was sweet. He'd have cuddled me, but his armour was covered in blood spatter and I had to look away until he'd cleaned up. Zevran rolled his. "Jake and I adopted her, she's my niece."Helen pulled back enough so she could look at Marie. "Niece? But you saidyou were an only child?" Helen's eyes grew wide when she realized whatMarie meant. While Marie did not have any siblings, she had alwaysintroduced Kelly as her younger brother. "Kelly?" Helen's lower lip beganquivering while her eyes became watery, glancing over at the girl, tearswere also running down the young girls cheeks as she looked over at bothHelen and Marie.Marie nodded..