." The upstairs door opened, and the girls on the couch turned tosee who was coming down the stairs. Leslie didn't even understand whatshe was looking... at right away. "He was like that. He was exactly likethat," she said, as Susie and Richard gently guided Caroline down thestairs butt-first. They'd actually gotten her, the tough girl, the cargirl, to do this! "I've gotta know, what'd you say to her?" We simply offered, that's all." Susie said, a bit imperiously. "She'sclearly not the only one. He is wearing a wide brimmed cowboy hat making him seem taller. The truck has 'Bar-B-D Ranch' on the door and the name 'Pard Dixler, owner' below that. "Howdy, where is Nikkie today?" Spade, pushes back his ball cap and says. "That depends on who is asking. Seems to me that a friend would know she works." The cowboy's face muscles twitch in anger. "Just who in hell are you, mister? I'm Pard Dixler and Nikkie and I are very close friends. I have been helping her out with things since she moved. I held her. She was curled up like a child, asleep, her breathing only detectable by the movement of her back. I was spooning her, my knees curled up, my groin nestled against her firm bottom. With one arm under her neck and the other over her waist she felt small and intensely female in my arms. She felt delicate and she smelled so damn good.I'd found paradise. The minutes ticked by. Her bare back was warm against me. Her firm buttocks were warm. She felt so good in my arms I never wanted to. '"Laura looked up from the paper. "You'd just decided that your first attempt to explain your cheating hadn't gone well because you got mad. This time Jonathan told you that you'd changed the marriage contract without consulting him. He told you he hated you that because you'd ruined his family, and you concluded that he had never loved you. Do I have that right?"Susan relaxed, and nodded, 'that's what I felt.'Laura gave her a look of incredulity. "What does it take to get through to you? You.