My heart is pounding in my chest--we are together for real. For REAL!After all the dreaming and fantasizing, after all the make-believe, we are here!I... ease you down onto the soft bed, into the pillows.We are slowing...not so frenzied.You stroke my head with your hands (the sight of your gorgeous red nails makes my chest ache).I kiss your cheeks, your eyes, your neck so lovely.How could the gentle line of your nose arouse such fiery animal desires in me?You close your eyes and sigh deeply.My. We will disable the trucks and head into the plant. Stand by and watch the other sentries but do nothing. Call me if they start moving." Okay. Be careful." Roger."Bennie snuck around to the left for a better place for his shot. We had done this before and it always worked. I removed my shirt and stepped out. The sentry stood up and looked at the noise I made and continued to stare at my chest. He never got a chance to get a good luck when Bennie's shot caught him between the eyes. The shot. I was no longer merely the leader of her beloved Baby Birds, I was a possible candidate for Daddydom.Did this scare me a little? Well, maybe. I'd had one unsuccessful marriage already, and that always gives the question a little dollop of extra uncertainty.And I had no experience at all as a daddy.But my ex-wife and I had been awfully young and green when we'd gotten married, and despite that, we'd held it together for quite a while before our mutual decision to let it go. Maybe my marriage had. She turned so she would be facing the room, hoping she was being watched. Again, she prayed no one would wander up and try to strike up a conversation. Holly wanted more and finished her glass. Without asking, the glass was filled and her twenty remained. Holly stole a glance around the room and realized many eyes were staring back. She suddenly loved the attention and turned her body more, hoping enough cleavage was showing. Before she finished her second drink, another filled glass sat.