"Oh...good", he responded. Then, out of nowhere, he said, "DAMN! It's so fucking hot in here"! I started laughing at this, because Clay very rarely...cursed in front of me or anyone. I apologized for laughing, and told him that I got so hot, I had to take off my usual t-shirt and shorts that I wore to bed. He assured me that it wasn't a problem, and if I didn't mind, he would strip down also. Well...much to my surprise, Clay did not wear underwear, so when he crawled into bed next to me, he. "I just shook my head.Late in the afternoon, Lettie, Wanda and Jo told me they were going to go off and take a bath."I'll be damned if you are. We have no idea if any of the people who shot me are still around."Lettie looked like I'd slapped her."I'm sorry, Jase. I never thought of that."I gave her a hug and said, "You'll just have to wash up in the tent until we know for sure they're not going to be back."Lettie nodded and snuggled in."We can do that," she said..oO~Oo.Tess checked out my wound. “You were totally clear you were seeing other girls and she knew you were getting laid regularly! Something, by the way, I missed out on!”“Me, too!” Jeannette laughed.“That was about me and not about the two of you,” I replied. “Though I have to say I did have certain fantasies after I turned you down!”They both laughed.“We can talk about those later! What did she say about Angie?”“Doctor Underwood was going to call Angie’s therapist in Cincinnati and see if Angie called her, then notify the. I had that travel trailer out there in its shelter and had planned on tying it to our pickup truck and taking off for a vacation this summer. Now I was looking at an entirely different set of plans.I had gotten used to knowing that Nikki was graduating THIS year, and that college was in the cards. After all, why not? Discovering that this girl of mine, this GIFT, was as intelligent as she was, that was more than a pleasant surprise. I knew she wasn't ready to stop learning, and she and I had.