Revelation of Hearts (Stacey and Shane Mcleod, #3) by Rikki Dyson Page A

They both were happy to see each another again. At the apartment after making love, he told her how much he had missed her. Lora admitted she had missed him too.  They spent the next five days together just talking, making love and taking long walks in the snow-covered park. 
    On one occasion, they joined in a snowball fight with some children that were playing in the park. Afterwards they walked back to Jonathan’s apartment, hand in hand.  They both knew this would be their last time together. At the airport as Lora was leaving, she told him, “Get a life McKay. You deserve more than I can give you.”
    New years of nineteen-seventy-nine came and the castle folk had a New Year’s party, mostly for the young people of the family. The twins brought dates, Jessie brought Sam, Suzanne and Tracy both had dates.  Douglas came with his family and so did Farley Macgregor and his family.  Farley and Jackie’s older sister, Bernice came with her family, all the way from California.  Both sets of grandparents were there. Mary Beth Flemming as well as David and Eleanor Macgregor. It was a new year to remember.  It would be the last time they would all be together, until Jessie and Sam’s wedding.
    Jessica waited until January fifth, to tell her mom and dad she was moving to Austin, that she and Mary Faye had already found an apartment to be near Sam. They would be working at the same hospital. Jessie knew her parents were not going to approve nevertheless her plans were made. “I need to be near Sam so I can help with plans on the house,” Jessie told her parents. 
    Jessie had been studying ancient herbal and medicinal remedies. There was a great teaching facility near Austin. The closer April and the wedding came, the greater the excitement. The Scott and Flemming families had become well acquainted and liked one another and approved of their children’s choice of spouse. 
    On the fifteenth of April, nineteen-seventy-nine, Jessica Leighanne Flemming and Samuel Adam Scott were married. Lora was her maid of honor. Her friend Mary Faye, her sisters and cousins were her bridesmaids.  Sam’s brother Russell was his best man. 
    The Macgregor, O’Neil and Scott grandparents and families were there as well as Mary Beth Flemming.  The Scott and Flemming families were now united. The wedding ceremony was preformed at St. Marks Presbyterian Church. They spent the night, in a Houston hotel, the next day they flew to Los Angeles, where they waited two hours at LAX airport, before they boarded a flight to Hong Kong, China.  Once there, they planned on a combination honeymoon and much anticipated interview with professor Wang of Beijing University on ancient remedies.  These plans had been waiting to activate for over a year.
    President Nixon’s trip to china had helped to open up trade with the west, but it was still difficult to obtain a visa to enter mainland China.  Jessie and Sam had a seventy-two hour visa and a driver to escort them to the university and back to the hotel. All should go well:  What is the old adage about, ‘The best laid plans of mice and men?’
    Since Lora’s humanitarian trip to Boston in December, she had heard from Jonathan a few times.  She knew he had met a girl that worked at the television station for his brother. Today she received a wedding invitation.  Doctor Jonathan McKay to wed Darleen Rodgers on the first of August nineteen-seventy-nine, at St. John’s Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Lora knew she would not attend, but she would send a gift.
    The twentieth of June, rolled around again just like an old penny.  The castle folk gave her a surprise birthday party.  The one thing in the world she least wanted, but it made her mother happy.  The whole family knew Mary Beth was not well, so everyone tried to make her happy.  Having this party for Lora seemed terribly important to her.
    Jessie and Sam came to the party, but they both acted a little mysterious. “We want you to