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physical relationship that ended abruptly when he was killed in a car crash. By the time she met Evan he had been gone three years and the pain was still raw and real. She would never forget the first time she took Evan to meet her parents. Her mother still had pictures of Mary Katherine and Harry everywhere, scattered about the house. Mary Katherine avoided her parents’ home for that very reason because she hated being reminded around every corner. All of her photographs had been carefully put away in chronological order in an album which she pulled out whenever she needed to see his face and put away when she didn’t need to think about him. Her parents had questioned Evan almost nonstop during the two hours they were there for dinner and had made their disapproval known from the very beginning. Mary Katherine was furious when they left, and called her mother the next day to ask why she had been so rude to Evan. What was wrong with him, she had wanted know. He was handsome, a doctor, had high moral standards, cared deeply for Mary Katherine. The answer? He wasn’t Harry, whom they had expected and wanted their daughter to marry. She knew their open disapproval made her care more for Evan and she went into the marriage with every intention of being a wife in every sense of the word. It hadn’t been an issue before because Evan’s strong spiritual beliefs didn’t include that kind of intimacy before marriage. On the first night of their honeymoon in Bermuda, she had realized how little she felt in a physical sense for a man she loved so much otherwise. Afterwards she burst into tears and told him the whole story and admitted that she wasn’t sure she would ever be able to give him that part of herself , at least not in the way he deserved. That was the first time he had held her in his arms and told her it was all right and he would be there when she felt like she could. It hadn’t been the last time.
     
         Their marriage hadn’t failed or turned into a disaster because of her faults. They genuinely enjoyed each other’s company and were happy to spend time in the other’s presence. She learned to appreciate polo and enjoy it, he became well versed in discussing the art world in which she became quite successful. They both loved taking the sailboat out and wandering down the streets of Annapolis, which Evan considered to be his hometown, or taking in a museum in DC. As their relationship with the O’Briens grew, they found friendships that didn’t exclude either one of them. And ironic as it might seem, many of the best conversations they had took place in their bedroom, whether as they read the Sunday paper there, or were drifting off to sleep after keeping up with their busy careers. They were affectionate with each other, it was a partnership, a deep friendship. The one thing it lacked was the deep physical passion Evan never gave up hoping for, and children, which he’d have liked and she had never wanted. She worked around the children by volunteering to ‘borrow’ the O’Brien offspring often.
     
         Evan had, in deep sleep, let her go and rolled over on his side. She looked at him in the moonlight and wished could find a way to be everything he wanted and needed. As she fell asleep she promised herself, as she always did, that the next time he asked, she would.
     

 
     
    Chapter Six
     
         Tara watched from a slight distance as Kel worked a crowd in downtown Baltimore. She thought it must get exhausting to shake so many hands and speak to so many people day after day, but he smiled as moved through the throng that surrounded him and took the time to speak to each and every person he shook hands with. It seemed as if the entire population of the city had turned into the inner harbor to hear him speak.  He had delivered a stirring speech with the American flag flying at Fort McHenry in the background and Mary Katherine assured her she had gotten that picture to use with the