For the New Year I'd been volunteered as a baby-sitter for Margaret, I didn't mind as my parents were going to my aunt's for a party, and whilst they ...used to be fun I found that I was still treated as a child and not a grown up, then again I probably acted like a child so you can't really blame them.I arrived at Margaret's at seven o'clock ready to do battle with the kids, we always had a laugh and they weren't any trouble but we had to go through the motions, and of course we did. Margaret was. Then we moved together into my apartment. I got a job at a very exclusive medical center, and he worked on his master's degree. I let him get me pregnant the day he landed three job offers. He knew how babies were made, but I had let him think he was in control of his sperm. When I broke the 'good news' to him he scratched his head and made sort of a embarrassed smile. We were married within the year.Neither Henry nor I believed that we should limit our sexual experiences to each other. My man. “Grazi Angela.”Angela smiled and departed leaving the two women to enjoy the food. After agreeing that both dishes were delicious they sat and ate in silence. Sabina, as always, enjoyed the serenity and security that her home offered while Claudia basked in the warm terracotta glow of the courtyard. It was yet another perfect summer day and although they were sheltered from the sun by the house and by a huge shade umbrella, Claudia could not shake the urge to go for a swim in Sabina’s pool. But. We believe that came from a check she had cashed a few days previous to her breakdown.”“She usually carried cash with her. It’s strange that the police never asked me about that.”“They were careful because they believed you had something to do with her disappearance.”“Thanks to Dean Parker,” I groused.“She had it in for you from the beginning, even before I became involved.”“I think I told you she’d had a long-running feud with the science departments over their use of pure merit for honors.