Not once did I ever look at her and see anything but beauty, though. If anything, the maturity made her even more beautiful. Some evenings I would sit...resting from my day’s labors and watch her. We could sit for hours just holding each other and talking about all that was going on, and all that we needed to do. At night we always slept wrapped in each other’s arms. During the day if either of us had a need there was no cause to speak, we somehow knew. Then one Winter after Sarah turned 80 she. “Strip.”Will started unbuttoning his vest. “That doesn’t sound so bad. What’s Tonya for?”“Well, your weird curse is interwoven with your aura. It’s basically part of you, so when we merge our energies, I’ll be merging with the curse too,” Bella said. Her blouse and the soft corset she wore over it both landed in a spare chair leaning against the back wall.“I don’t like the sound of that at all.” Will’s fingers stopped their work after only a few buttons down his chest.“It’s the best way,” Bella. Her littlekitten must have been restless again, as she had worked herself to thevery edge of the bed. Her left arm was draped over the side and herblanket was on the floor, piled beneath the reach of her open hand.Amanda gathered up the blanket, but as she went to recover her sleepingchild, a stuffed lion fell from the tangled material. Instinctively,Maggie's little hand opened and closed, vainly searching for hercherished sleeping companion.The stuffed lion at Amanda's feet solved the mystery. " I continued breathlessly, "Although I no longer needed a baby-sitter Brian volunteered to keep an eye on me, no sooner were we alone than he set his own little plan into action. We had a few drinks and he suggested a game of truth or dare, we'd played a few rounds when he dared me to take my dress off. I did it and got my own back by telling him to take off his trousers, he grinned as he did it. Things got back to normal so to speak for a while then he dared me to take off my bra, I was a.