Her arms tightened round him and his round her.Leah came into the hall ready to greet him and quickly retreated.At last they let go of each other exce...pt that Allie immediately found Toby’s hand and led him into the sitting room and the sofa. It never crossed her mind to take him to her room.They sat just holding hands, both hands, and looking into each other’s eyes. Neither could summon up the courage to speak for fear of breaking down nor did either of them know what to say.At last it was. “Apologise to your mother.”“Ridiculous. How can I when she, and you, should know exactly what happened.”“Pardon?” Mark looked at his son in shock. “What in hell’s name are you talking about?”Sam almost seemed to preen. He had the eyes of all three of the others on him, all of them looking at him in awe it seemed. It wasn’t awe, far from it, but he couldn’t see that.“You had the letter weeks ago. I remember it arriving about the same time I got back from basic training. I remember you telling me. We held hands as we first walked the short distance to school. She’d given me my first kiss at my eighth birthday party. I was the only person she would let call her Ali, and she was the one who called me Jos, no one else was allowed!At the age of fourteen, she was a beautiful teenager who showed the promise of the stunning woman she was going to be. She was also possessive; she walked up to me at the school disco and pulled me away from the girl with whom I was dancing. She slapped the girl. “Open your eyes; the worst is over and I want to see into your soul as I fuck you. The others were crying by now. All except Roger that is, but then I’m sure he was used to it by then. There were pictures of him and his partner, a big black stud, all over his apartment. Speaking of black studs, I forgot to introduce you to ‘Leroy,’ all ten inches of him. Now it’s time that you two got better acquainted.”Ella began to move her hips back and forth slowly at first, pulling Leroy almost completely.