There she was; the people she was escorting to a table blocked his view of her. She vanished around a corner, exposing only a fraction of a profile bu... with that glimpse his heart froze for just a second. He shook the vision from his head. She's dead! Fool! It usually worked these days but the idea that he had seen her would not leave him. He looked around the restaurant and took in the environment. The places she might move to after seating her guests. After a while, a few minutes maybe, when. I simply followed her lead then acted as a substitute for Edgar and carried you here. I failed you last night. I was not there when you needed me. You could have been hurt or lost to us forever."He nearly jumped out of his skin when Christine's voice sounded from directly behind him and he felt the luscious curves of her body press against his back."Erik ... do you realize that you are the only person that has ever been able to make me lose my temper? I am trying very hard not to hiss and spit. Karen didn't know whether to take his squeeze as sexual harassment or just a friendly hug. Just as quickly, Bill relaxed his arm again, and she could feel it rest against her back. Karen adjusted her leg once more, but the effect was more of a gentle caress than breaking apart."Sorry," said Karen, "it's been a long time since I’ve been so close to a man." Me too," said Bill as he lowered his head to look at the beetle crawling across the paving stones before realizing what he said. "I mean with. “I’m not mad at you William. I still love you.”I looked over at Erin and we shared a tear as Erin gave Margaret a hug and told her.“That’s my girl!”We were having breakfast about a week after the episode with James and we hadn’t heard anything from him or our lawyer. As we sat at the table after the girls had cleaned up and gone to get ready for Blossom’s school, the moms and I sat there in the quiet feeding our children. Before the feeding began, it occurred to me that I had yet to feed.