‘Let’s see that damned bikini.’ She took the scraps of white cotton and strings and went into the bedroom. I half expected her to renege on the... bet after she tried it on. It took her a long time in the bedroom, and when she came out wearing it, her face was red. So were her eyes. I’m pretty sure she had been crying. ‘Jeff, look at me!’ she cried plaintively. ‘I look ridiculous!’ I was looking at her, had been since she came out. I shook my head slowly as I looked her up and down. ‘Nooo,’ I. People had some wine and the hors d’oeuvres as we waited for the grill to warm up, and even then the steaks the guys brought were thick so were going to be slow cookers, even to get them to the medium rare condition that everybody liked.While we talked, Jasmine brought out her desktop iMac computer that I’d bought her and set it up in the shade near one of the two large picnic tables where we’d have dinner. She promised an interesting dinnertime discussion after she showed a special video or. Irena had shown immense interest in medicine and Harry and Susan had insisted on funding her through medical school. At thirty eight she was a well respected Consultant Neuro-Surgeon, having met and married Ned, a fellow surgeon. They had two children Agnes and Bertha, four and two respectively. Beata was working in advertising in the family business, groomed to replace Perdy in due course, she was a natural, as yet unattached she had left a string of broken hearted boyfriends in her wake.. She never even whimpered. Later I took the kids to the nursery window to see their new brother. He was a big boy, eleven pounds eight ounces. He was the whitest, most Nordic looking child in the nursery.I was worried about Eddy's reaction to having a fair-skinned brother. I needn't have worried. My eldest son was so taken with being a big brother the baby could have come out green. As the years proved, Eddy was a great big brother to both our other children. I tried not to show him too much.