The stove was probably down to just warm coals. She looked at the dog, waiting anxiously."OK, let's do this before I fall back asleep." Throwing the c...vers aside, she slipped her feet into her slippers and started her day.Jeff woke in a strange bed.He blinked. No. He knew this one. He had been in it before. So. The second time he had awoken in it. Not AS common an occurrence as waking in a completely strange bed, but one night stands had become more on occasion. Stacy, for example. She had been. ”.“I think so and she was certainly happy with the outcome.“I have the three folders. Once I make a choice she will be taken back to Cassandra.”“You made your choice already, didn’t you?”“In the first hours after I read them all.”“So why didn’t you tell her who your choice is after she was pregnant?”“I’ll tell you that when I get ready to return.”We discussed my choice and reasons for it. He grilled me about her. She was 24, working on her Master’s Degree in history at one of the major. “Holly, are you sure?” was all I asked her.She took my hand in hers and nodded. “Yes, we have talked about it and decided it was time. We have done just about everything BUT that, and like you and Linda we want our first time to be more than just going at it in the back seat of his car. Not to mention that his car is just so damned small!”Linda and I both laughed at that, and said it would not be a problem. “OK, you two can have the guest bedroom, we will use mine. Are your parents going to. Second, the timing was always terrible. I knew her for little more than a year now and we were never single at the same time.The whiskey was making her talk to me about something she most certainly wouldn't in normal conditions. Astonished as I was, I would enjoy it the best I could."And what is it? What naturally happens?" I asked while looking at her, amused.She laughed, "You know... Slapping the girl's butt... Pulling her hair... That guy Ronny I dated a couple months ago, he used to choke.