I thought of all the obvious things: private detective, hidden camera or microphones, even following her. I didn't feel comfortable with any of these....It would be hard enough just to lose her. Even if she still loved and wanted me, I knew I couldn't live with her if she was cheating on me. To see photos or to hear her telling some other man how much she loved him would stay a stone in my heart forever.Finally I just decided to sit down and talk to her. We had always been able to work through. The hospital wanted to keep Laura in overnight for observation due to bruising on her shoulders and a possible shock, so I slept in the chair next to her bed, holding her hand. The next day while waiting for the doctor to do his rounds, I went to see my boss. Arriving around mid-morning, my boss tried to reprimand me for the way I had spoken to the receptionist until I told him what had happened.“Learn, that’s all I’ll ask. If someone says it’s urgent, let them make the call. By the way, if you. I wait till the tremors subside then move back up to kiss her lips. She opens her eyes at the kiss and I can see the desire and passion she has been holding in check. I then lean up and open her towel all the way, savoring the image before me of her naked body. I see as a smile cross her face as she watches me gaze at her uncovered form lying there on the couch. I move back on the couch a little and then lean down again and begin kissing her between her breasts, and then I look up to her,. .. whatever he was. Lover wasn’t the word – yet, if she had anything to say about it – but she didn’t have another to describe what Nathaniel meant to her.But all of that would be moot if she allowed her attention to wander at the critical moment. She rolled her eyes at herself – Sierra was going to bust a gut laughing at her when she found out, Leliana knew – and sighted down the length of her nocked arrow. The soldier from before, the one Aedan had recruited to help him, paused outside of.