It was how we remained hidden for so long. There were girls that strayed too far and were caught but none ever spoke a word of us. I am certain that s...me of the bones in the tower came from girls I knew. I ... I saw a ribbon in the belongings that I’m certain came from one of our sisterhood. Her name is on the crosses on the hill. All the names I could recall as missing are there somewhere.”“Good,” Rucar said.“So, I spent much of my life surrounded by women,” Celestine said. “I do not think I’d. She wanted it all, wanted it more that anything in her life. She walked through the door and looked around for him. He was leant against his jeep, she had no idea what make, model and she didn’t care, she wanted him and she didn’t want to waste any more time. Running up to him, she dragged his head down to her lips and kiss him. Taken back for only a second, Alex started kissing her back, showing everything he was feeling in that kiss. She slid her fingers through his hair, then down his neck,. ." I started. I felt that I needed to put up at least some token objection to what he had planned for me. But he stopped me before I could continue."Shhhhhh, little one," he said softly. Now I was intrigued, because I had never seen this side of him, the tender, loving side that he had kept hidden behind his gruff outer shell. "I have something for you."And he produced a small gift-wrapped box and handed it to me. I opened it and saw that it was velvet box from a jeweler. I opened it up and was. ”She couldn’t help but smile and she pressed her lips back to his. She wanted to stay like this forever.“Ya know, you are wrong about one or two things.” She said as she pulled back and raised one eyebrow into a perfect arch. “oh yeah… and what’s that?” he said with his mischievous grin“First, You are a real man. You made me feel beautiful and safe. That’s not somethin that comes easy for me and safe is not somethin I thought I could ever be again. That is the measure of a real man.”She gazed.