"Trish shook her head. "I love your parents, but I think we need to behere for now. There's a reason for Doctor Wing being here. Maybe oneday, if t...here's no alternative." One day, Trish, maybe we'll have a chance at a real wedding. For now,we have to find ourselves a good counselor." I'll ask some of my friends if they know anyone; there are some coupleswho I'm sure know someone." She paused for a moment, and Amelia couldsee the wheels turning. "Mela? Did you talk to Artemis at work?". In fact it was another of the proconsuls physicians. He had been sent to attend to Melissia’s latest wounds in the absence of Ithicus who had been returned to Rome to ultimately face banishment. He was a kind man but he was no Ithicus.Melissia stared at him through pain filled eyes. “Ah yet another sent to heal me and ready me for execution?”“Please do not make this any harder for me than it already is my lady.” Like Ithicus this physician did not like what had been done to this splendid. Come here NOW.” Jess knew she was in for it and tried to hurry over in hopes of making her happy.“Stand up straight,” Valerie said. “Hands behind your head. Spread your legs.” Jess did all of these while the rest of us watched.“Stay here,” Valerie said, and she went over to the desk across the room, She routed around in the drawers for a few minutes and grabbed a few items that I couldn’t see which she placed in her pockets before she returned.Standing in front of her, Valerie teased Jess’. I found the can in her freezer. Same place I keep it at home. I set up the pot, and hit the switch to start it brewing. Since Kelly had the same kind of coffee maker as I had at home, I knew it would take about twenty minutes to finish.I went over to the bedroom door, and looked at the angel still laying there, curled in her bed. Her tousled golden hair, the only thing showing above the blankets in the pre-dawn light, had to be one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen.I remembered Kelly.