I-I'm almost tongue-tied with embarrassment." Don't be, my Kate. If it's any help I've taken to Andrew and, as Gran said, he's a good man. She said qu...te a lot more about him too but you tell me what you think." He is a good man, a very good man. H-he's gentle, caring, understanding, funny; firm too when he needs to be and..." You love him." It was a statement not a question.She nodded silently."So what's the problem, my Kate?" he asked gently.Her eyes filled. "You!" She turned into his chest. " What happened with Jim?" He's gone. She told me that she was upset after breaking up with you. She came home and tried to call Jim to come over and help her deal with the heartbreak. That's when she found out that he was already back home with his wife. She never knew that he didn't live in the area, or that he was already married." I guess she blew that big time." That's why she won't stop crying. Listen Mike, could you take her back?" I don't know." Please? I can't take much more of the. And I would be dismissed from the service. That, plus promises of exclusives about base events for the next year bought the reporter's silence." And you're upset." You fucking bet you." You're career is over." Of course it is! What else could you think about that?" I think you're wrong about that." Explain yourself." Simple. There are those watching things that are going on. The Association poked has it's head up a few times, always covering their path as brutally as they had to. There are. ..but then perhaps it was for the best, she really shouldn’t think about her son’s friends as anything else other than c***dren. She never had done so before, had she? But if she was honest, that wasn’t really true; she hadn’t considered her son friends in an erotic way because she hadn’t allowed herself too. The thing is, as they had grown up, she had noticed them, but suppressed and buried it. After all, until fairly recently they’d really had been c***dren in the eyes of the law. Now though,.