"Does she no longer like women?"A laugh escaped, and my tears spilled over. I looked at him, and his face softened."She's still at war," I said."Ah." ...Jaden gathered me up, and held me until the tears quieted. "Many soldiers are. She may come around, especially if she's near you."I shook my head. "She came last night and told me she doesn't have anything to give." Right now," Jaden insisted. "Right now she doesn't. The war's only been over a couple months. Things like this take time." Maybe." I. .." he shook her gently... "Come on, it's almost noon!" MNnnnnnn," Kate groaned and turned over. "I don't feel well. Tim..." Too much to drink, eh? Well... Sam sent me up some stuff... maybe you want some too... supposed to be good for a hangover!"Kate remained silent. Sam's name was enough to freeze her in a kind of catatonic state. The horror she felt about what had happened the night before was too great for her to be able to face up to it as yet. It had almost been daylight when she had. It seemed that Juliette won the argument, as Stefano threw up his hands into the air and stormed out of the room. We took the noon train to Florence, and it was late afternoon before we arrived at the hotel. There had not been time to make reservations, but Juliette was well known by the hotel manager, and we had no trouble in securing a suite. It was similar to the suite that we had occupied in Paris, that is it had two bedrooms and a sitting room. It would be necessary to use l’deception. Once he had paid for the drink, he returned to Ellie and sat down again. He sipped the scorching hot coffee. ‘How was she…before she ‘ He broke off abruptly. The words just wouldn’t come, no matter how much he tried to spit them out. ‘Lisa was good,’ Ellie said softly. ‘She was happy and looking forward to the baby’s coming.’ Tears welled up at the corners of her eyes. She fought to contain the tide of emotion that threatened to spill out from behind the carefully built wall of control. This.