We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel – Peter De Vries.

Two days later, Gisele decided to call Lizzie. “Hello, stranger.”, Lizzie said as she answered.

“Hey, Liz.”

“Yeah just ‘hey’. No ‘Lizzie, I missed you so much!! How are you. I wish I could come stay with you'”

“Lizzie…”, Gisele started.

“It’s okay, I get it”, Lizzie cut in.

“You do?”, Gisele asked, surprised. Lizzie never let stuff like that go. She’ll rant, scream and sulk.

“Yeah, I get that I live in some faraway village with no modern amenities”, Lizzie said sarcastically.

“I said I was sorry, Jeez”, Gisele exclaimed then continued, “So many things have happened and I realize I need you so much”

“Oh dear. Don’t worry call me at any time and I’ll call you too, Okay”

“Yay. I have a free day sometime soon. I’ll come see you”

“Okey Dokey. I’ll be waiting”, Lizzie said and hung up.

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lunchtime and Gisele was trying to get Callie eat. “Come on, mon ange, you need

don want to eat, I

The expression on the kid’s face was funny but Gisele controlled her urge

at you and he won’t come back. You want him to come back?

eating like she was in

she laughed out loud and told Callie to eat a bit slower. Callie was obstinate about the fact that she could feed herself and didn’t want

was happening, Callie was halfway across the kitchen, screaming

startled and met Slate Hendrick’s

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parked his car in the garage and pa**ed through the adjoining door into his home. Home. Funny, he had lived with Jessie his ex wife for close to four years but had never considered

the day he realized love was

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Two years ago…

responsible for all this!! First, you knocked me up, then you abandon me under the pretense of business meetings. You think

“Jessie…”, he started

stupid excuses! You leave me here all alone and you expect me not to look

behavior on me. You broke the promises we made to each other by getting comfortable with my business rival. And not even once did you consider Callie. Have you no self-respect?”, Slate asked with calmness

blah, blah. So cold, so unemotional, so detached. And do you know why I had s** with Rodrigo? Because I realized my feelings for him were more than my feelings for you! So you better say goodbye to Callie because I’m relocating to Italy and

she turned to go, he held her hand and said, “You can to any fùcking country you want but you are going to leave my daughter with me,

back coldly, calmly. She took her car and went out under the heavy downfall and it was only the next morning he was notified of

Present…

by a soft feminine laughter. He followed the sound and found himself in the kitchen. He

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