”I grabbed my pack, “just watch.”I climbed down and waited until she pulled the ladder up. I headed towards the woods and my heart beat faster. ...I slipped from tree to tree until I saw the ford at the stream. Three wagons were there and the horses were dead and shriveled still in their harnesses. Men were sprawled out beside one wagon and a few close to a tree.I looked around before I moved away from the tree I was behind and waded across. I checked the wagons but there were only chests. I went. ..and then with what they both had. I had to walk a line between not giving the game away that Viv and I were fucking four times a week and also hinting that I knew what she packed beneath her sweatshirt! Jules was a bit reticent. To be honest...she was a bit dim. BUT, not entirely anti the idea that was looming in the distance. Her little giggles and coy looks were enough to encourage both of us.Jules was sat on the floor, her back against the bed but would not join me on the mattress.. Silly, huh." Damn, Jill!" I moaned. "Why didn't you TELL me?" Because I knew what would happen if I did. Especially back then. And I knew what would happen if I told you or Mom now that I wanted to get pregnant. You'd both go into speeches about college and my future and all that stuff, when all I really want is to raise apples and your babies. She closed her eyes for a couple of seconds and opened them again. "Our babies," she corrected herself.I just stared at her, unable to say much. I think. “She's gone off the deep end,” Frank explained with a sigh. “They’ve all gone nuts!”Jake Pestova laughed. “You think so? I think Béla was restraining herself admirably! She could have killed all of us just by thinking it for threatening her daughter!”“How do you live with that?” Frank wanted to know. “Don’t you worry that you might find yourself enslaved? Or even worse? Her powers have become godlike!”“I love her!” Jake protested. “And even though I know that wouldn’t protect me if she thought.