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him. "I've never met anyone like you, but I assume you are not married, never want to be, never will be, have no children, and if you did, you would only visit them by court order."
She had him stripped to his undershorts and T-shirt and he was certainly in fine physical form, but she felt nothing for him, any more than she'd have felt for a statue.
"What makes you think I have no wife? I could have married many times." He sounded more curious than anything else.
"I'm sure you could have, but the only way a woman would marry you is for your money."
"I beg your pardon."
Maybe it was rotten of Randy, but she felt a little thrill at having upset his calm. "You are not what a woman dreams of."
"And what does a woman dream of, Mrs. Stowe?"
Smiling dreamily, she pulled back the blankets on his bed. "She dreams of a man who is all hers, a man whose whole world revolves around her. He might go out and solve world problems and be seen by everyone
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as magnificently strong, but when he's at home, he puts his head on her lap and tells her he couldn't have accomplished anything without her. And,MBT Nama, most important, she knows he's telling the truth. He needs her."
"I see. A strong man who is weak."
She sighed. "You don't see at all. Tell me,MBT Vizuri GTX, do you analyze everything? Take everything apart? Do you put everything into an account book?" She gave him a hard look. "What are you making your billions for?"
As she held back the covers, he stepped into bed. "I have many nieces and nephews, and I can assure you that my will is in order. If I should die tomorrow?
"If you should die tomorrow, who will miss you?" she asked. "Who will cry at your funeral?"
Suddenly she was very tired,Puma Fluxion II, so she turned away from him, pushed the blanket partition aside, and went to her own bed. She had never felt so lonely in her life. Perhaps it was Eli's talk of going away to college, or maybe it was this man's talk of her looking as though she should have many children. Wh