”“And dog-ass tired, too I’ll bet.” John commiserated. “Let’s get some sleep; tomorrow’s a new day.”“What does―d” Treb started.�...�It just means very, very tired.” John interrupted. “Go to sleep.”John took the first watch, fingering his ear silently as he watched and listened.Syg escorted them to Last Watchtower in the morning. The town sat perched on a ridge, length-wise, with a giant blocky concrete tower at one end, and a steep cliff at the other. It didn’t have any walls, but the houses were. If I get you a walking stick, you can bang the floor beside you, and I should be able to hear you from wherever I am, and come to be with you.”“Not what you might have expected, as one of the tasks of being my wife, eh?”“Not in my past certainly, but with you in your present state, it is a task I will gladly accept, my darling man.”Jessica went off to the hall cupboard, found a stout stick that would do the job, and brought it to to leave with Reg.By the time his wives came home from the. ? ?You do?? Jane wasincredulous. ?Yes, but its notwhat it seems. In fact, I think it?s all a stunt to do with the PR Awards nextmonth. Jessica, myself and Mikki are doing a project for Karen on ?.? She wascut off by the doorbell ringing again. ?Oh, who?s that? Stay there Jane, atleast you deserve a drink for your concerns. Pour yourself one while I getthis.? At her front door Jochecked her caller out through the security spy hole she had. A youngish man ina UPS uniform stood clutching a parcel.. I turned out gay, and I'd truly believed, that if Eddie knew that, he'd see me as worthless as I saw him a few days ago. If I was going to be completely honest, that type of rejection was frightening in itself.But now... well, now I was waiting to wake up. I felt like I was having a dream. A really weird dream where I was sitting in a tiny deli with Aaron Keslin, gripping a package from my deceased mother and listening to the first boy I'd ever kissed tell me that my biological father was as.
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