"You were married for 36 years and you're not going to do anything? Just let her walk away?" She's been seeing him for six months and hiding it from m.... She's been talking to me and pretending to be my loving wife while he was naked in a bed with her, and probably inside her at the same time. She was thinking about him when she was with him, and thinking about him when she was with me. It's probably longer than six months, maybe back to that first time she met him nine months ago. She hasn't. Zeb had lived on the plain of Timisoara, a minor merchant of wares who had been blessed with only one child, a daughter. When she reached the age of her first menses, her gift of Blue Hand made itself known. Two months later the priests came in the night and set fire to their home. Both his wife and daughter were trapped by the flames. Their modest house of everything worthwhile in their lives became a funeral pyre. Zeb, out of his mind with grief, fled eastward. Seasons later, he settled the. Meanwhile, Inez was gonna be the gatekeeper. I said that she was as good a judge of people as I was, so I trusted her ta protect the whores. The bouncers was there ta back up her decisions.All of the whores was upset when they heard that Sam an' I was only gonna work the whore house fer the first week, but I told them ta calm down an' give Inez a chance ta prove her worth. Ifen she couldn't cut the mustard, then Sam an' I would take over. That calmed the women down a little bit, but I could. For all intents and purposes, she had done nothing wrong. ‘Cassie, if this was about me and Chris, well, there was nothing there. I wished there was, but well, he did not. It would never have worked out anyway. That night, during his birthday, I seduced him. He did not come seek me out. And when I saw him the other day, he told me point blank that he was in love with you. So if you’re leaving because of what happened between Chris and me, don’t.’ Frieda took a big breath when she finished and.