French has known him her whole life.’ Nicolàs held out his hand to Aidan. As they shook hands, the two men sized each other up, not even bothering ...o utter the obligatory niceties such as ‘How do you do?’ They stopped short of glaring at each other, but only barely. French and Marie-Josée exchanged a startled glance and then both began talking at the same time, ‘Um, Aidan, let’s go — ‘ French began, while her cousin said, ‘Nicolàs, we have to — ‘ There were a few seconds of confusion while the. "The cops glanced at each other. "Look can we come in and discuss thisall together privately? We might be able to help." Sorry Constable but the answer is no, she is not welcome in thishouse."He sucked in a deep breath when he saw my resolve. "Sir, regardless ofthe impending divorce, this is still your wife's house as well as yoursand she is legally entitled to live here, you cannot kick her out withnowhere to go without filing all the correct paperwork." Nowhere to go my arse, she is living. It would be time consuming, but we needed to get the stumps out if we intended to raise crops on the land.When logging day finally arrived we had to do some explaining to keep so many people from coming out and trying to help. For the first few minutes I was in mortal terror of dropping a tree onto an unsuspecting helper. After the first fell they didn't need any more explaining - they could see the danger.Things were pretty easy at first since we were felling large trees where the smaller ones. Dom also reassured Mom and Da that he would never do anything to hurt his Angel. At this declaration Mom smiled and Da’s face turned almost as red as his hair. I was sure that the whole New Madrid police force was going to be at the dance. I was so screwed! Somehow we made it through the dance. Dom’s Godfather took us to the dance in a limo. You should have seen the jaws drop, at least until Dom fell getting out of the damn car. Ah well, he WAS my Dombo! We danced, well I danced and Dom stepped.