I noticed she sat on the edge of the seat, and thought I should have done the same. She smiled as if reading my mind."I remember you from before your ...accident', a Christmas party, I think. You were a very good looking man."She said it matter-of-factly, as if talking of someone else. She had shown no emotional reaction to my appearance at all, her only reference being her comment about Derek.I remembered she was not at that party, at least that was what David had said. Interesting."I assume you. "You see, while your mother chose to marry, I put my efforts into the family business. In all modesty Vickie, I am wealthy. That brings with it power and influence and the ability to indulge myself when I wish." I don't understand." We all make decisions in life. Some turn out to have been good ones and some not so good." You don't think Mom should have gotten married?" Of course not. After all we wouldn't be having this conversation if she hadn't. I just meant that there are always certain. The girls had probably wondered why I had cried off spending the week after I got back with them but I just couldn’t do it. I needed the time to heal both the physical wounds and the mental ones.Tory had decided to remove all the children on the same day, so it was an exciting day for us from the older generation. We became parents that day, and I think we all took a huge step towards adulthood. I know I did.While the girls felt that they were ready for babies, I think them having an older. ‘Ye canna see what they’ve done to ye, Regan. If ye could, ye would run screaming to yer own time.’ Cien shook his head and stood. ‘I’ll go with ye to yer 2008, if ye will still have me as yer husband.’ He bowed his head and looked up again. ‘Will ye have me?’ I started crying in earnest now. I put my hands over my eyes and cried into them. My heart had been broken, from nothing of his doing, and now if was whole and full again. That was his doing. I’d been so broken after Tilda’s death. So.