He could see them swallow in the moonlight and grin at each other ... hair rough and shaggy around stiff collars.They were man sized but he knew they ...weren't men. They looked his way but he must have been downwind and in shadows because they both dragged a dirty sleeve across a dripping mouth and bent to rip and tear again. This time ... when they came back up he could see the fingers of a hand, white in the moonlight, sticking out of the side on the larger one's mouth ... the bones. " You can touch me," I whispered. "If you want." Uhhh..." he smiled and looked around.For a moment I didn't think Clark would do it, but then I felt his hand, his fingertips tickling my bare thigh where my skirt had ridden up. I took a breath and nodded, looking straight ahead and feeling my heart going faster. The man carried a coat with him, like a trench coat sort of thing that businessmen like, and it was soft and dark and he used it to cover his lap and mine. That might have looked a. ‘One who chose me, over him. All through school, Jason was used to people kissing his ass.’ He gave a careless shrug. ‘But Rachel didn’t fall under his spell like everyone else and he’s held a grudge all these years.’ As Andreas’s words sank in, so did a quiet, desperate denial. Jay was still hung up over this Rachel person? But that couldn’t be…she’d learned the hard way that he wasn’t exactly the commitment type. ‘That doesn’t make sense,’ she murmured, as if saying the words could make it. ’ Jed teased. ‘Oh, I don’t know, I’ve only ever been 5’3 since I was twelve, Mr. 6’3.’ Carolynn teased back, smiling. She pulled him down and kissed him on the cheek. One thing she made sure of was that he still felt loved and that his brothers and dad did not tease him about what he was going through. There just was no room to add insult to injury. Carolynn, Jed, and Cameron ate breakfast while sitting and talking. Jared, Mitchell, and their father had left earlier in the morning for a fishing.