”Veronica just smiled tenderly at me, kissing me softly on the lips. We were two people with the same dilemma, only in some ways, it was simultaneou...sly both easier and harder for her, Easier because she only had one person to love. Harder because when she wasn’t with the one she loved, she was alone and knowing that the man she loved was with another woman, and another woman who he also loved.I kissed her softly and gently reminded her she’d not yet answered the question I’d asked – about. Mom proceeded to explain her life to me, adult to adult, woman to man . . . which made me hard for a while so, maybe actually, woman to boy.She had loved sex with dad and they had been adventurous. Having c***dren had not altered her body significantly. She was one of the lucky women for whom having c***dren seemed like a simple task and left her body both intact and reactive so that it responded to the work she put into keeping herself sexy but that came later. For her, sex was accentuated by. “Yeah.”After dinner, we usually gathered in one of the houses and chatted. I didn’t always participate, but I did that night. Afterward, Faith headed back to my house with me. As Kyle helped Cassie inside, she waved to Faith and glanced at me, one eyebrow raised. I shrugged and smiled and ducked inside before Kyle looked up.I took my time that night and enjoyed every second with Faith. We bathed and massaged each other. We laughed. We kept a lamp burning. Her body was exquisite, her sense of. Ehawee secretly believed that part of her daughter’s fascination and devotion to studying the wolves was in admiration of the freedom with which they lived. She could understand the feeling because she sometimes felt the same the way. She sometimes felt that The People were getting too large and the life was slowly changing. The size was security and development of new skills, tools, and ways of doing things; none of those things were bad or wrong. The changes were positive for the.