How’s Susan?”“Susan is fine. She is really happy with our new arrangement and so am I. We owe it all to you and Lyn.”“Did you tell her about...us?”“Not yet. That will happen in time. I want things to settle down first. That will come once we have concreted our new relationship. She has admitted to me that she had been considering leaving me in time. She told me that she loves me but was going to leave because she knew that I would discover that she was cheating eventually and she didn’t want to. Again it didn't take long before my primed body exploded, and that's all Patrick needed. His eyes were glazed as he threw back his head in a primeval roar, spewing his hot cum inside me in jets that fuelled my shuddering orgasm further.We collapsed together and our mood gentled. He cradled me to him and we both pressed kisses wherever we could reach, waiting for our breath and hearts to catch up. When our mouths eventually touched we drank one another, aware that we had just touched soul to. You fail like I know you will, you owe me four dollars.”We shook on his ‘sucker’s bet’ and I had to bite my tongue to keep my composure.After Cherry’s gymnastic tumble, she didn’t look in my direction very much; clearly playing ‘hard to get’ like I asked her to do. My ‘buddy’ kept laughing about how I was ‘never getting that number’ and that I should just go ahead and hand over the four dollars. Every once in a while she would look in our direction and I’d motion for her, but she would just. In the morning, he knew, they would be hungry and it would be time to cross the river to the Island and get food. Until then they would remain at home, where they could safely weather the Storm. They walked up the five flights of stairs to their apartment, securing the basement door from behind. The other entrances to the building were welded shut, in addition to another level of steel he had managed to seal off. He was working on sealing all of the other apartments as well: scrap.