As beautiful and lovely as you are. A tiny little bundle of joy, which can light up my world, just like her mother does.''I want a son, baby,' she sig...hed dreamily. 'Someone as handsome as his father, who will make the girls go crazy over him.''Do you want to know?' asked Fred as he rose on his elbows and turned towards her. 'Shall we go to the doctor tomorrow?''No, unless you want ...''I don't want to, Samantha. And if it's a girl, we could always go for a boy the next time. And if it's a boy. "How long now?" Half an hour, Jack", she told him calmly. "That's all. Just half an hour"."I can't survive it". He was adamant. "And it sounds like the plane can't survive it. We have to land. Tell the pilot... ". Then he registered her words and was confused. "How do you know my name?" he challenged, this new uncertainty adding to rather than diverting his disquiet."I'm a friend of Sally's", the girl replied. "A good friend. And I know all about you. She asked me to look after you"."It's her. He wanted to close his eyes but the light wasstill there. He tried to take a deep breath but could not feel the airmove into his lungs. He tried to focus on a single thing and felt quietsurround him. He reached out with his mind and became aware of manyothers around him. He suddenly saw memories of those people, things theywere sharing both good and bad. He glimpsed a thousand different thingsin no time at all."Very good," came the voice again. "You are back with us again." Are you God?" Daniel. Gil grabbed my hat and contrived to brush my breasts with the brim as he swept it to my head; it was so sudden, so unexpected, my nipples suddenly pressed against my bra. "Gil?" I said in a low voice. He stopped. "Yes?" "I'm going to wear you out." "I hope so," he said, and we started to the door. We didn't speak. Once we were in the elevator, alone for a moment, he ran his fingers from the nape of my neck to the base of my spine, and I shivered. I stepped in front of him and pressed myself.