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"Roy, let's not think about all that now"

"I never stop thinkin' about it, Rain Whenever I was the loneliest, feeling about as low as a wor that picture up out of ht to keep it there inor see anything else but you That's the truth and I wouldn't tell it to anyone else but you, Rain The other guys all think I'ry ht about you turned me into Malory out of me just for the satisfaction"

"Oh Roy, don't say that"

"I have to say what I feel, don't I? You are about the only person I never lied to, Rain Never, except when I thought ere brother and sister and I had to hideyou to protect you or et into any trouble, but the real reason was my eyes wouldn't turn away from you I just liked to watch you"

"You're torturing yourself, Roy You'rethe joke crueler on yourself"

"It doesn't have to be that way:' he insisted

I felt his hand on the side ofIt moved smoothly, softly up to my hip bone and then settled onlouder and faster than his

"Roy"

"If we did it once, Rain, just once, ouldn't think again about ere, only about e are That's the only way to know for sure if we could"

"I don't think I can, Roy"

"Sure you can You just keep telling yourself we aren't blood relations We are two different people We had different mamas and papas and if we met someplace and never knew each other before, it would be fine You just tell yourself that," he said His hand moved down I jerked myself away a little, but his hand stayed there and then he turned my face slowly and kissed me on the lips

"What did you say your naain? Rain? Wayne?"

I smiled

"Where are you fro his make-believe scene

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