Jeanette nodded and returned his smile, and Oliver felt his pulse quicken at the thought of what might come next. He'd told her a little bit of his co...cerns about his job, and they'd agreed that they'd talk about it after the kids were in bed. But now Oliver found the need to process what was happening at work fading when faced with his wife's bedroom eyes. His wife of 14 years was still gorgeous, with lightly tanned skin, blonde hair cut to hang just to her chin and a body kept lean and firm. " I don't like guys looking at me," she replied, "because I know they're not looking at my face." There is nothing wrong with your face," he replied. "So what if you don't look like Nicole Kidman. Hell -- I don't look like Brad Pitt but it doesn't bother me. In my eyes there is no other girl in the world more beautiful than you, Scarlet." Except for McKenzie Phillips as a thirteen-year-old," she replied."Not even." He cupped his hand under her breast and lifted it to his lips. "You keep these. ‘Blacklisted’ was the word he used. Damn this college and the stupid rules! “Okay,” I thought to myself, “if I was not allowed to go home, at least I could change.”I called up Sharada (You’ll remember that bitch from . She was the one due to whom I had to stay dressed like this and stick out like a sore thumb). She did not pick my call.I was running across the college in those clothes, searching for her to get my salwar kameez back so that I could change asap. Remember that it was. Which is it? I was born at night Marsha Ann, but it wasn't last night. I know exactly what's going on here."Marsha Ann and I had been dating for about three months when I gave her the only thing I had ever gotten from my dad. It was a gold nugget necklace that he had won in a poker game. Before he left he asked me several times to give it back to him, I guess he wanted to sell it to buy booze. Even at six I wasn't stupid so I told him I had lost it. That got me a backhand across the face, but.