A few days later I called her for a chat and she was just as sweet and wanted to meet again. So we made plans to meet for a drink at a place that was ...lose to both places that evening. I arrived early so I could see her entrance and what an entrance it was. She was dressed in a very short skirt and a mid drift top that was both incredibly sexy but very classy since she had the body to pull it off. Her hair was perfect as was her nails and every part of her and I was in lust hard. She came to. Then he would call on one person. That person could open the present they picked or trade someone for the present they picked and open that one. If they opened the present they picked they got to choose who was next. If they traded the person they traded with went next. He looked over the crowd and he picked Carl White, his bridge partner whenever Emma wasn’t. Carl switched with John Tinker and opened what he took from John. He got two decks of very nice playing cards in a fancy box. John went. "I woke fresh and ready the next morning, and at dawn I faced the bully. I turned and he fired before he stopped moving. I felt the bullet brush my nose; it hurt, it was that close."And yet, there I stood, my pistol unfired. He looked at me and saw death. I lifted my pistol and took aim... and he started to reload. I shot the fireseed horn from his hand, Lady Noia. Worse for him, I called the shot. Worse for him, I broke some of his fingers when the horn was wrenched from his grip."He stood. I rolled over. But what about Ch?rie? Was my Dad about todo the whole thing all over again, but this time with a woman who wouldtake him to cleaners financially as well as emotionally? Maybe Steph.was right to try to stop her. But, Dad was a grown man, surely he couldmake his own mistakes. Was Steph really trying to save him from himself,or was she just looking to expose and punish him for failing to keep hismarriage together the first time around? I tossed and turned. I knew I'dnever be able.