’ ‘Repay me?’ he looked confused. ‘It’s all because of you. Without you I could only make toast and boil an egg!’ ‘That might be so,’ ... stopped him. ‘But now I want to cook something for you. You said the other day how much you love pot roasts so please let me make a pot roast for you.’ ‘On one condition,’ he smiled that wry smile that I had come to love. ‘That you let me help you. I’m sure a pot roast is well out of my league, but maybe I can learn a thing or two from watching you.’ I agreed. I plan to ask her to marry me, if I can have your permission to marry your mother?”She jumped up from her chair and came running to me. She gave me a huge hug and said. “God yes, I thought you were just taking advantage of her. I’m so happy she has found you then. You must also ask my sister Bet if you can marry our mother.”I was going back to my house to get the ring I had from my marriage to Beth. Beth wanted to be cremated and had made me promise that if I ever got remarried the ring would. " and that is as far as he got before I began yelling into the phone."Is she all right? Has she been harmed? If you have allowed anything to happen to my wife, I swear that I will..." I had to pause for a split second to stifle a sob that was working its way into my throat, and Fife took advantage of the pause."Hey, Maddux!" this was the first time that Fife had addressed me by my first name and it got my attention. "Listen; I don't have any information for you about Lana's condition. I am. Would Oscar be able to tell that I had been unfaithful, that I just hand mind blowing sex with my hairdresser? That I had never felt so full or so satisfied in my life? I felt like I had a sign above my head saying “Slut.” Everyone who passed me looked at me differently. Just as I got home, my friend Yolanda arrived. We kissed cheek to cheek and I invited her inside for a cup of coffee. We had only just sat down in the kitchen when Oscar came in, covered in dust and dirt having spent the day in.