But they were public people and those controlling the funeral just bundled her into a funeral wagon and carried her off to the graveyard. When Ada ret...rned, baby Hugh still lived, and Ada adamantly refused even to leave the funeral carriage. She ordered the house servants to bundle Hugh up and get in the carriage, and they just flew out to the lake house as fast as the carriage could carry them, where Ada sat, nursing her baby until he pulled through the crisis. The overwhelming chore of caring. “How ‘bout me…what?” I finally asked.“Would you have sex with me?” She asks right out.“Ahhhhhhhhh…”I guess she saw the shock on my face. Her hand shot up and covered her mouth. She giggled, “…If I wasn’t your Mom, I mean. You know…If you were sitting in a bar and saw me.”If she’d been able to read my mind just a little bit ago, she wouldn’t have had to ask.“In a heartbeat.” I blurted out.She smiles appreciatively but I could tell she thinks I’m just trying to make her feel good.“You’re. Greg let out a curse and pulled up to keep from being an accidental victim of the exploding missiles. Mechs came running out of the building as more explosions were heard and felt. We didn't make another pass. There would be no surprise a second time.Pulling away and looking back it looked like the whole building was going up. As the Mechs came boiling out we could see why the display was so awesome. Eleven of the thirteen Mechs they had carried missiles. Nine of them LRMs. They had the two. He knocked himself out of the trance. “Oh, uh, dispatch said that Preston and me don’t have a shift today. That’s why I was saying I’m just messing up all day today.”Sarah smiled. She knew Preston hadn’t been planning on coming right back after dropping off their mother. He told her that he was going to pick up some parts for his bike he was working on. She wondered if Don truly didn’t know. Why wouldn’t Preston tell him? “Are you sure you didn’t just come over to wish me a happy birthday?” She.