Blue laughed lightly, looking slightly self conscious with an adorable pink tinge coloring her cheeks. ‘Thank you for the compliment, but I know my ...talents and limitations. I enjoy the ‘doing’, but teaching art is my strong point. It won’t make me rich, but it makes me happy.’ She smiled, making John’s breath catch in his chest at the sheer, simple, beauty of it. Right at that moment was when John’s biggest goal in life became not only to have Blue in his life, but to be the one to ensure her. So what brings you out this way?” Dan asked.“Two things. I was worried about you, and there’s a little place not too far from here that I was thinking about buying,” Sue answered. She was planning on moving out of her apartment into a house with a separate building in the back for a studio.“You’re moving?” Dan asked surprised.“Well, my artwork is really selling, and I have to do something with the money I’m making,” Sue said. The taxes were about to kill her since she didn’t have that many. Might you pen the letters requesting payment? I fear that is something else I have always had poor skill at." Of course — first thing in the morning. I'll deliver those that are in town myself, and try to get payment immediately. We can use that coin to begin paying off some of your debts, and perhaps set some things right while we wait for payment from the debtors farther away. I hope I'm not pressing too much, but did your wife leave you?"Corydon smiled weakly, letting out another sigh.. I fetched my heavy coat from the cloakroom and made my way outside with the small crowd of diners, relieved to be away, for a short time at least, from the heavy air of misery that hung over us. The night was cold and the sky speckled with stars. It felt good to be out in the open and for one insane moment I had an urge to take the car and go see Kate. She had been on my mind almost constantly over the last couple of weeks and the need to see her and touch her was becoming unbearable. When I.