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In a few minutes he returned and stood before ?" He started ruh his closet for some dress pants and a real shirt

"My, ht"

"Oh, no These aren’t buttons They’re snaps," he said, pulling the shirt around his shoulders "It’ll make it easier for you later, so you don’t have to rip another shirt off me"

"I didn’t rip your last shirt off," I said and laughed "You did"

"Hey, if you get to choose to re that tree, I get to re my way"

"Fine" I threw the blanket off and swungand watchedto take a quick shower too"

"You should’ve just hopped in with otten in with you, ould have saved neither" I got in the shower, at first deterood to let the hot water flow overaway the parts of the last twenty-four hours that I didn’t care to re the sensuality of the parts that I did

When I stepped out of the shower, I dried off quickly, and wrapped h Peter had laidto dress when the door opened a crack Peter poked his head through it "You got a visitor"

"Who is it?"

"A wo like Rivkuh"

"Rivkah Rivkah Levi" I hadn’t seen or even thought of Rivkah since the day the line had selected me to be an anchor She had been one of the three witches who’d arrived early to prepare our house for the cereht interfere with the investy in the new anchor Their efforts had been wildly unsuccessful

"Yeah, that’s it You okay? Should I ," Rivkah’s voice came to me from over Peter’s shoulder "Get dressed and coed "I’ll be right out, Mrs Levi"

"Rivkah, please, dear Peter, do you have any wine?" I heard her opening and closing cupboards "Ah, here’s soht there," Peter said and closed the door behind hile braid It would be a tangledIf I didn’t make it out to her quickly, she would invite herself in to joinout the wrinkles that had collected in the skirt ofacross from Rivkah at his kitchen table

"There she is," Rivkah said, rising and wavingfrom someone I barely knew She kissed my cheek "Mazel tov on the little one" She released lass "To Colin," she said, holding her glass out to Peter, who clinked with her

"To Colin," Peter echoed, a certain hesitancy in his voice

Rivkah sat down "So tellon here with you and this family of yours?"

"Have you spoken to them yet?"

"No, not yet I came directly from the airport I wanted to talk to you first" She leaned back in her chair, stretching into a relaxed and nonthreatening position