She leaned over the console and gave me a deepand sensuous kiss and said "thats what". We got back to the house around 5:30 and went into the kitchen...to put things away, poured ourselves a few drinks and started making dinner. Jen was in the shower (again) when we arrived, and came into the kitchen in a tiny robe and a towel wrapped around her hair to get herself a drink while we were making dinner. It was clear without having to use my vivid imagination she was naked underneath, and I. I never believed anyone would welcome me anywhere much less into a family. I’m still letting that sink in. I thought I would have one friend for my whole life, Jenny, and she would be a thousand miles away.’ ‘And here we are sitting in our family’s bunk house in northern New Mexico, headed for Santa Fe and our new life.’ ‘And ours, too.’ Jerry said, taking Jenny’s hand. They both smiled. Tom sat quietly for a minute and then spoke. ‘I wonder if I could ask you, Petra, to consider something. Perfect,” he sighed happily though he didn’t indicate if he was talking about the tea, the cookie, or perhaps Kimber herself. Really, he was thinking of all three. The cookies actually were not something he asked for, but he liked that Kimber was thinking, and wasn’t content to be some mild drone.“I still have work to do,” Maeson told her, as he took his phone out and called up a preprogrammed routine, “but that doesn’t mean you can’t start.” Maeson hit a few buttons, grinned wickedly at. "I'm 'dentured, don' get to think." She tossed her head and hurried away.The driver shared his pipe with me and then went to his bed in the loft of the carriage house. I fetched in my horse and saw to his needs. An hour or so later, Bridget returned with a couple of blankets, a stoneware bottle and a smile."I 'member you," she said, making up a bed in the back of the black wagon. "You the one with a root like a maple tree, ain't cha?"I added my blanket roll, and we climbed in and got.