"Be with you in a minute," I said to him. I got in the cookie jar and pulled out her number. A calm settled over me. Might as well get it over with. I...picked up the phone and punched numbers."Hello?" came her voice. It was like music in my ear."Will you be hungry tomorrow night?" I asked. I didn't even tell her who I was."Starving," she said.The storm was back. I didn't see any lightning, but it was thundering to beat the band. I had an errant thought that I'd left the window down on my. So I turned off the water, dried my hands on a towel, and turned around to kiss him, with my arms around his neck.” Stacey was getting flushed, reliving that kiss. “I remember thinking in that moment. ‘We’re kissing like husband and wife’, and I just hugged him tighter, y’know?”“Holy shit. I know just what you mean!” Laurie interjected, then remembering Becky, said to her, “Sorry, Beck.”“Shush, you!” Rebecca snapped. ”Stacey; go on. I want to hear the rest.” “Well, I could feel his hard-on. Wow, I've never had anyonedo anything for me before. Maybe I had everything wrong. Maybe it wasjust a culture shock that had my opinion so low of my in-laws. I wonderedhow extra beautiful my wife would be. Darkness engulfed me.I woke up in a private hospital room. My mind was not coherent. What Idid recognize was my wife sitting by my bedside, she was in tears. Idon't know why she was crying, but she either didn't have any electivesurgery or she heals very fast. It seems her father had passed. I even kept Guaedret nude for my pleasure as well. Ernest I permitted only his nightclothes, as a further demonstration of my power.“Good sirs, be apprised of my intentions toward you, this fair town, this borough, this shire, and indeed this duchy. As the new and first Duke of Cornwall, I seek to assert the rights of this ancient land against the usurper and rebel Roger Mortimer, his lover the treacherous French Queen who turned against her own husband, and his lawless collection of followers,.