” The two girls scampered upstairs, each glad to be doing something. David guessed that he had not been included for a reason and turned to look at...Mrs. Ellis who gazed steadily back at him.“Now then David…” Mary seemed be turning something over in her mind. However David knew what she wanted to say.“Mrs. Ellis I’ve been thinking. I think perhaps I ought to write to my mum and see if I can go and stay with my Aunty Rose in the New Forest. She’s got a cottage there and it’s very safe. When she crawled back into the truck fifteen minutes later, she took her boots off and joined him, taking the cup of coffee he offered her. “Got cream and sugar if you want it,” he told her setting the donuts between them. “Not a healthy breakfast but will give us the sugar we need for energy.”“Heard them say at the truck stop the roads are open so guess after breakfast I will be on my way so you can get on your way.” Callie said taking a sip of her black coffee. “Black is the way I take. ”“I know. I hate me too.” He couldn't even bring himself to look at his beloved as the hallway opened to a master bedroom. Awaiting the couple were two muscle-bound rivals, smiling and staring the other two down, the female finally breaking down in a laugh riot.“Ohhhhhhhhh, my-*pfft*-my humble queen…”“Please shut up, Se-”“AAAAAAHAHAHA! You think you can order me around, Ashe?” Sejuani had no issues standing over the more feminine woman. She herself was wearing her usual furs but left her. I tried to put her off, she had been the subject of most of my wet dreams since long before I ever met Caroline, but my close relationship with their family ... I sometimes thought of her as the sister that I never had.And I knew of Jerry's attitude towards her boyfriends or any boy that took a second glance; you know how the world works, or how an allegedly intelligent person's mind works: I did something in my past, it wasn't acceptable – whether morally, ethically, legally, memories are made.