As the bride and groom kissed in the little church, Karen turned to look at her two children, her natural child Katie gurgled happily in her grandmoth...er's arms and little Tommy, her lover's child lay fast asleep in his grandfather's loving arms.Gerry stepped forward and kissed her,"Are you ok sweetheart?" and Karen loved him for that one little question."Yes, I'm fine, thank you - - - Dad" and he beamed with pleasure."Thank you sir" the porter looked at the twenty pound note Steven had pressed. My more assertive lovemaking, the strange edgy feeling, the irritation at apparently imagined slights and my current lassitude. I was building up to my first period for the new me. Retreating to the bathroom I opened the packet and removed a sanitary towel that looked like it was far smaller than the ones that Maddie used to keep in the bathroom cabinet. It only took a moment for me to fit it into my panties then after washing my hands again I walked back to the living room.I made the effort to. His acceptance was significantly more skeptical this time, but he nodded and led me to the door. “Time to face the music.” I could tell, for all his reassurances, that he wasn’t any happier about it than I.Dinner was strained and awkward, despite the best efforts of Zevran and Alistair to lighten the mood; Aedan was clearly still furious with Fergus, and I had to suppress a flinch every time my liege lord looked my way. It wouldn’t have been nearly as bad if we hadn’t been sitting at the head. .. he almost fucked up the entire deal." I'll deal with Johnny," sighed Roger. "Right now I am much more concerned with what that gunshot might have done to the subjects. It might have brought them back to attention. If they did start attending at the wrong time, then they may have registered a memory. That would really fuck up them... and us... in the worst sort of way. That would make them completely useless to us. Subjects don't last very long as it is and finding new ones, the right ones,.