’ I exhaled and looked into her eyes. ‘What do you think?’ We sat and hugged and kissed and cried, then changed a diaper. I got dinner ready. Th...e local Thai place is great, and they deliver. This day was a real emotional roller coaster for us both. We took the rest of the evening just bonding. No one left the apartment till morning. We both learned something important that day. It took a while, but we finally got around to talking about moving in together. Cathy was the one that brought it up.. She told me it would possibly be another hour. I asked her to have him call me when he could. She said she would give him the message.After hanging up, it hit me that Michael had given her specific instructions to take my call. That made me feel real good.I called Tom to ask him about the conference call. He said he had talked to Phil and Blaine and they were open Thursday morning early. They had to hit the practice tees by ten our time. Tom said he hadn't been able to get a hold of Michael.. Because of her, Valeria was unharmed, at least physically. Her emotional state is similar to mine.”He paused and swallowed his emotions. “Not long after the shooting, despite everything she’d been through, Valeria wouldn’t leave until she checked on me and Juliet. She came to the surgery waiting room – Juliet’s blood still on her clothes. She cried when she told me how sorry she was. She blamed herself for Juliet’s injuries, and was devastated when she learned of her death ... She still blames. He thought she might try and cover herself, but was pleased when she didn’t, letting him review her as politely and graciously as she should. “You’re lovely,” he murmured once he had made her squirm enough to get him hard, and reached out, tipping her chin his direction, kissing her sweetly as her reward. She liked his praise, not just for the compliment, but for what it meant. That she belonged to him. That she was his, and he adored her for it. She blushed looking back at him. It was so.