His fingers traced up and down her back. She absentmindedly pressed her hand against his cheek, lightly stroking the stubble and she opened her eyes, ...not realising she’d closed them. He was gazing at her, smiling and it felt good. She shivered with pleasure and he broke the kiss, shrugged off his coat and draped it over her shoulders. “Oh I wasn’t cold,” Ellen explained as he pulled her into his arms, then took hold of her hands and helped her to her feet. She stopped herself from saying more.. Terry pulled back a bit looking into Penny’s eyes then back up at me, and then she nodded and smiled nervously before she stepped out through the door Penny had opened. Maggie led me silently back into the kitchen and motioned for me to resume my seat at the table. She then went about putting a kettle on to boil and setting out three cups and saucers on the table. Penny came into the kitchen and motioned for me to remain sitting before I could stand up. She smiled and then walked over. To put an even stranger twist on things, Gary married the granddaughter of his legal father’s older sister. My mother said that my grandparents on her side were of about the same age.”“They met while serving overseas in the Army when they were in their late twenties. They hadn’t known about their supposed relationship until much later. She was a James after all and it was her grandmother that that had been a Brown. Mum told me that they had done DNA tests when they found out, so they knew that. All was well in the gossip corner, so I smiled at the female approaching and welcomed her as I would anyone, again, trying not to assume, or mostly not to give too much away.She walked right to the bar’s far corner where I stood and I could feel her trying to peer inside of me."Can I get you something?", I asked warmly.There was an endless pause as we cased each others’ forms. She was tall, lightly freckled, curvy but somewhat athletic looking, and surprisingly dark haired, like a ‘Black Irish’.