This story will be no different, though it is far closer to my heart than most for reasons one may well read between the lines to know. Brenda and I h...d talked so many times of authors like Christine Feehan, Karen Marie Moning, Kresley Cole and others it was easy to see we needed to share even more than the love of the words held in the volumes we each read with a zeal for the pleasures they contained, yet only the looming threat of infidelity restrained me, for one. For Brenda, I should not. Oh, well, we didn't think that the dead man would care that much.The marshal gave us the four receipts, so we had collected $105 worth of bounty—not a fortune, but worth the morning's work. As was customary, we confiscated the guns and sold them, along with the fugitives horses and tack. This came to $127, so we did right well for little effort and some danger.We were too far from the next town to get there without pushing our horses, so we decided to spend the night where we were and to resume. When they left I lay there for a while; sated by two lonely old men and humming noiselessly in my head. On the TV, a mother who looked about 25 was telling her son’s friend who looked about the same age that her son was out but would he like some iced tea. I switched to another channel and went and run a hot, deep bath.I had already decided to “select” VJ tonight, unless of, course he did a disappearing act again. There were still, I think, four that haven’t had their Christmas bonus yet. I. Deciding that I wasn’t going into work I rang Sally and explained that I had a family emergency, but I’d be back in the following day. I didn’t see Felicity for a couple of hours, and I was not that surprised. I knew that she wanted to be with me physically, but she was not yet capable of such intimacy. I had no idea when, or even if, that would happen. It took a further two hours before she accepted that I wasn’t upset with her.It was a further three weeks before things finally changed..