nd nuns who had taken me in when I was broken and forlorn. I knelt before the Mother Superi

hat you wa

head to avoid showing her my distress, I nodded, wh

lent after blessing me and I rose and left the ro

for over a year seemed to grow smaller in size as the vehicle drew away swiftly in the gathering gloom. I

been my refuge, my happy place for a year and more. Would I ever be able to re

nto the highway. I met Gaston's cold eyes as he sat a little away from me in the spacious SUV. Blinking away m

on a chartered plane, wi

and then, putting out his tiny hand, gave Gaston a wide toothless smile. Cuddling him close to me, I bend my head, hiding my face as I patted

before him, nursing a drink. I could feel his eyes on us, brooding. He had shown

d offered me a drink but before

ink. She's a b

flushed in embarrassment. He still

gs and faces, the humming of the aircraft, everything was bothering my

nt to feed the twins with Ga

it want?" h

ungry." I

d silkily, the hooded ey

of you," I said stubb

my mouth, I regretted them; tal

nt. I moved back in alarm. "Do it" he ordered, thickly. And then, moving closer, his

the embers of a latent fire being re-k

p her face to demand her hunger be

n on his face. Preparing to join his sister in crying, Piers

athing as he stared at my unbound, heavy breasts. I brought my daughter's seeking mouth to my nipple and then shifted Piers so that he could suck from the other teat. Win

oaned softly in response, throwing my head back, sinking lower into the seat to allow him more access to my nape. The blood was pounding

t you.

arched towards him. Confused by the responses of my body,

too, don't yo

r kissed me with such tenderness ever before. When he raised his head, I opened my eyes in wonder. The expression

t distu

derment, and somehow, humiliated by his change of mood from arduous lover to cool 't