" Thrimdal said "Nor my father of you." Never met your father by the time your mother married we were no longer on speaking terms." he said dismissive...y coughing into his hand."Who are you?" Names don't matter now, just an old dwarf. I should have loved her, truly loved her but I was a fool." he said chuckling. "I wish I could have seen her one more time, tell her I'm sorry. I became so bitter and hateful, now my years are coming to an end soon and all I feel anymore is regret. Regret at the. As the day wore on, we began to work up a quite a sweat. The warmth of the sun and the heat generated by our bodies, allowed us to remove layers of extra clothing. We stopped at our first campsite and ate a quick lunch of trail mix and jerky. It was another beautiful day, and I could have easily sat down in the sun and allowed the rays to warm and caress my body.I had to fight off that temptation, as we still had a long distance to go before we reached our destination. Dawn headed off first, so. “So what’s up?” I asked.“With?”“You said you needed to talk.”“Oh. Yeah.”“Well?” I urged, after a pause.“This isn’t the moment.”“Why not?”“I don’t feel like talking about it now.”“All right. Can you at least give me a hint?”“Let’s go inside. The waves are too rough to have a serious conversation.”I followed Lara up the beach. The three women and Hans were coming down the porch steps.“What are your plans for dinner, sweetie?” Melissa asked Lara.“I don’t know.”“We’re thinking of eating down on the. ***Over the next few weeks, Connie and I had grown close. Our c***dren enjoyed each other, and late nights we would drink wine and talk about our lives, our men, our c***dren, the military life, everything. She was quickly becoming one of my best girlfriends. Tonight was no different from how it had been the past couple of weeks. We were at her house this weekend (we alternated); the k**s were upstairs in Tim's bedroom watching Shrek Forever. Connie and I were downstairs in the den, drinking.