NOT A NEW CHAPTER...NOT YET

A/N: Thank you so much for your patience while I worked my way back into work after being off almost three weeks for my surgery. Thanks for all of the well wishes and kind words, there is just no substitute for consideration and decency. And while I would love to have updated more frequently these past weeks, sometimes real life gets in the way of fiction, so again thanks for your patience.

In addition to surgery and the on-going situation with my niece who is finally back in the DC area but in need of twenty-four hour care; I lost both my grandmother (99) and father within the last three months – so I have had a LOT on my plate, and without my husband I honestly think I may have cracked and while writing is cathartic when we're dealing with troubling life changing events, I needed to be present for my family which I am sure most of you understand.

I was not going to mention this but given the circumstances I feel the need to vent a little - there is one reviewer in particular who makes it a practice to send me PMs with question marks as the subject (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!) and proceeds to question why I haven't posted, basically in the form of an obnoxious demand, without ever expressing concern or a salutation even, SERIOUSLY? I get it – you like the story, but as a common courtesy from one human to another it would be nice to read, Hello, sorry for your misfortune…etc. It is after all the decent thing to do.

I have missed Ana and Christian and I'm working now on the next chapter which I hoped to have up by yesterday 8/15/2016 – but I'm still working on it. I appreciate your patience again and thanks for reading. I won't leave you hanging much longer I promise, but I don't want to rush it, 6000+ words don't come that easy.