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Again Bucky was there in the morning. Only this time, Tony was feeding him some apples. I grinned as I got up and went out the open door to the patio. “I knew you couldn’t hold out forever,” I said leaning on the doorframe. “He was knocking!” Tony explained. “This little ass was literally knocking on the glass.” He waved to the glass covered door. He turned back to the burro. “You wanted your breakfast, didn’t you? You just couldn’t wait.” I chuckled. “We will have to buy more apples
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Of course they have undocumented workers. Citizenry has no ID yet. People come and if they find it, work. They do pay taxes, though.
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The next day we woke the boys, who didn’t appear surprised we were home in Royal Valley. They were delighted to be home. Getting them up Toby was signing and Dennis was saying a word he knew well. “Juice!” Seth chuckled. “You’ll get juice, I promise.” He hugged Dennis kissing him on the cheek and neck. “We’ve got a lot of it here.” Coming down, Grace squealed when she saw us…and the boys in particular. She rushed grabbing Dennis and hugged him and then Toby. “My, how you’ve grown!” G
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You helped remind me of the sunscreen. And I do have a lily white ass.
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The pace was slow. Making love, when we wanted to, where we wanted to. There were the occasional sighting of people in the distance or on the horizon on boats, but we were pretty much alone. Tony was right, it was hard not to think that there was something we needed to do or somewhere to go. We were just used to….doing something! “If you don’t mind…” I began as we made lunch. “….we’re celebrating our birthdays tomorrow. Would you mind just if we just spent the day here, alone? There’s a lot
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No, no dragons. No owls either. Who's Harry Potter? It will be a few centuries before he's born. And magic is dying out, remember? Homing pigeons have to be taken from home to return there. Meaning they have to be taken the two or three weeks away and then let go with a message. They'll have to come up with another way.
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Anastasia was not really concerned about what was happening. The overall feeling I got was she was a threat. Any simple creature on this world knew a danger when they came across it and ran. That’s what I wanted to do. Run. Christian nodded. “And he was going to break any alliance by killing me?” He said. “How was that going to work?” He moved a little closer. She shrugged. “I’m not sure.” She looked around the throne room almost absently. “He and a few felt Blethos should b
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It is small on Santorini and Bucky will be a daily visitor.
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The trip to Ios was a little more difficult. We left the hotel in the morning and flew to Athens, then took a much smaller plane toward Ios. It wasn’t but a few miles, maybe a hundred in a group of Islands south of Greece known as the Cyclades. Once we landed and we had to land on Santorini, which had the closest airport. There we rented a car, a little light green Fiat and was ferried to Ios and again things just sort of wound down even more. It was now late Fall, but the temperature in the
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Yeah, that's the problem with typing two stories at one time. Thanks.
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That and more. A'Dore and Blethos would be very powerful. But more is coming.
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Now we knew that Anastasia had been seen and we had something to look for. But there was still the mystery. Who was Jean Claude? Then I kicked myself, the first thing I thought of was to call Demetrius. I had surrendered a lot when he helped me and I was not liking the dependence. But we kept looking. Dr. Warren was so excited about this whole new little world we’d shown him. He had the craftsmen make more Seers. He chosen a select number of minds he trusted to form a group that was going to
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Just wanted to remind those that read this that the love between them had not stagnated. I got caught up with the Sasha side, but wanted readers to know things were still hot and heavy with Mitch and Tony. I didn't describe anything, but you know what happened.
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The week did pass and soon I was packing for our trip. I was arranging our clothes when Tony came home. Entering our room, he frowned at what he saw. I only had a few suitcases. “Are we packing light?” He asked. I looked at the four suitcases. “Light!?” Then I grinned at my husband. “I suppose this is light for you. We don’t need that many suitcases. We don’t need that many clothes.” I waved at the suitcases. “We can go without any on Ios.” Tony smiled. “Go nude? You? Out in the open
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Now we had allies in Royal Valley. I did worry a little about others knowing we traveled this way, but we didn’t tell them how. Soon we heard the knock on the door. “I put two horses in the stable.” Gabe’s voice said. “I borrowed them from the livery. I’ll put them back tomorrow.” I opened the door. “But won’t someone notice they’re gone?” Gabe shrugged. “A horse is a horse. Deacon is the guy in charge of the livery. There were a dozen, I don
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I was ten before I realized, being a preacher's son, I could say more than DARN and not burn for eternity. The real Sasha, and there is a real Sasha, just needed to know what people were saying to him. In the process, he told me what it was in Russian. The owner of the hotel wants premium rates all year around. I'm sure he'll jack it up a few dollars more when it happens.
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I get up the next morning and find both Sasha and Alik sitting at the table. Alik was not a happy little boy, but he was no longer crying or pouting. Well, that’s not true, he was pouting some appearing sullen and withdrawn, but manageable. “I took the liberty of checking the Internet,” I said sitting at the table with them. “It seems there are quite a lot of Russians here in Charleston.” Sasha’s eyes widened a little. “Really? Where are they?” He was surprised. “All around.” I smile
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There wasn't any word from Demetrius he couldn't check on them. He said Erik and Seth couldn't call him. He was just checking on Toby and Dennis. The note he just had and forgotten. There was no address. Demetrius find a way.
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I showed Christian the note. “Our past?” Christian frowned shaking his head. “But it mentions Ella. Which is it? My past? Her past? Our past?” I grinned sadly. “That’s the question. But the note does take the foreign question out.” I shook my head. “Whatever threat there is, it’s here in A’Dore.” Seth nodded. “But you’d better tell Ella. She needs to know that she was named specifically in the threat.” Christian shook his head. “But everyone loves her. She’s no threat to anyone!”
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Not in Charleston. TSA is strict, but if you're willing to go through security, they let you meet a plane and it's passengers. Of course this was almost a decade ago when it happened. I've not done it but a few times.
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Alik seemed okay with what his mother said, but I wasn't sure he fully understood. That was yet to sink in. And there was the time difference. It was early evening when Alik was crashed on the sofa while he rested against Sasha in front of the TV. I bought some videos for children his age in Russian for him and he watched that. Then Tasha yawned and rose. “I better get him to bed.” She said smiling reaching for Alik. Sasha nodded. “I can do it.” I put my hand on Sasha’s arm. “Let
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Alike is six. There will be trauma. Alike has never been away from his mother.
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Demetrius is old, but the idea of being Grandpa didn't sit well.
