She had tried to protect me andlike an idiot I had accused her of having an affair with Kritsada. Thememory of my words to her scorched like sulphur i...n my brain.I loved Alex and had been a colossal fool to react and behave as I did. Istarted to feel sick again but this time for a different reason.Kritsada's words about courage being the ability to make the rightdecision under pressure came flooding back to me. I had flunked that testthis time. Had I just thrown away the most important thing I. More hockey games were going on but I did nothing but watch. An hour later we came to the other end and climbed the steps to look over the edge into the area that had been churned up by work earlier. The ice was still thick and the area that the children had fallen through was broken again by work being done in the area.In all my activities I acted as a polite gentleman and Bryce followed my actions with wonder. Not that it was hard to understand but because I chose to do it.After tying a. ’ ‘He’s seventy-four so that must give you some hope?’ Darcy laughed and hugged her. ‘Mom came clean some years ago and told me it started before she married dad and a little while after the wedding she saw no reason to stop the practice. As you guessed she said it was only occasionally.’ ‘Why did Peter leave the business?’ ‘He’d almost lost his vision due to growths. Then five years ago after grandma died and granddad had become such a pain, mom took him to Switzerland to a clinic he’d heard. I’m here to help you find out about dad.”“What’s going on?” mom stumbled through my doorway covering herself with a robe, “What is it, Raymond? Did you have a dream? A dream about your father?”Why was everyone talking so loud?Still shaking, but comforted by Susan, I took a couple of deep breaths, then I looked at Susan, who said, “It was a dream about Dad, it sounded like. Go to bed mom, I’ll help Raymond get back to sleep. You have work in the morning.”“Thank you, Susan,” she said. “I love.