’ I cut the rawhide thong joining us from my wrist and turning, started to walk away. I had only taken a few steps when I heard the sound of footst...ps running toward me, then a gun shot. When I stopped and turned around to look, I saw Crazy Horse standing there, holding a smoking rifle and the brave I had just fought lay dead on the ground. I gave Crazy Horse a questioning look. He shrugged and said, ‘He coward with no honor. After surrender, he try to stab in back.’ I thanked him but he just. .. what you mean we even? ... ' Bruce looked at me and sort of snickered and moved to me forcing me to back into the wall. We were still in the small foyer of the apartment Bruce shared with his parents. As my back reached the wall I raised my hands defensively between us. Bruce looked at my up raised hands, smiled and took hold of them as he continued to lean his face into mine. i leaned back till my head was against the wall and tried to turn my face away. Bruce's lips brushed my ear as he. Linda and I continued to talk as I stirred the noodles and got everything out, and fifteen minutes later I had the chicken fettuccine alfredo on the table, with the garlic bread.Peggy and Mandy were just hugging each other as we went out and told them lunch was ready. As we started eating, Linda told them the ground rules.“OK girls, first of all you must never EVER do anything like that ever again unless you are in your bedroom, or somewhere that nobody else catch you. If it had been mom, I. ‘Oh, hush,’ she giggled, ‘And eat your breakfast before it gets cold.’ ‘Yes, ma’am….’ ~~~~~~ I hit Isabella with the news that I was going to propose to Arewyn sooner than what I’d told her the night before. ‘Really?’ she excited replied, her eyes wide as saucers, ‘When?’ ‘How about next weekend?’ I conspiratorially grinned, ‘I’ll set it up…leave everything to me, and don’t say a word to anyone.’ ‘What about Robert?’ she asked, ‘We can trust him, Daddy.’ That suddenly gave me an idea, and in.