Wicked Forest (DeBeers 2)

Afterward, he confessed that Amon was more than he

had expected.

"She's nobody's fool, wise and very sensitive.

You were lucky to have had her," he told me. "Why,

she even got Linden behaving like a normal person:" "She's always been magical for me."

"Maybe we'll take a trip to Brazil next year and

visit her," he said.

"Oh, will we?"

"What's to stop us? Just your work schedule or

mint, and we can find a way around that, most of the

time," he promised.

That night, my heart so full of joy, we made the

most gentle and yet passionate love we had yet. We

fell asleep clinging to each other as if we were both

afraid sleep would take us too far away.

.

The next morning. Aunt Agnes and Cousin

Margaret Selby arrived. Aunt Agnes was astounded

when she saw Amou and couldn't believe she had

come all the way from Brazil to attend my wedding.

She was cordial to Mother, but anyone could tell from

the way she spoke to her and looked at her that she

could never be very close or very friendly to Mother.

The only reference she made to my father was a

confession of surprise.

All my life I thought of my brother as the most

correct, proper man I knew. He was even serious as a

little boy, so concerned at how he looked to people, he

would wipe his mouth with his napkin practically

after every bite at dinner. To think of Claude having