I had to ask her, “Honey, why are you telling me this after this long? How could we have been married fifteen years with you never mentioning that y...u had a lover for four years before we met?” Her voice was no more than a whisper, “At first, I was afraid. I didn’t want to lose you, so I didn’t say anything. Then, after we were married, It wasn’t something I was proud of and honestly didn’t want to bring it up. If you had asked me if there had ever been someone else I would have told you about. We employed every able bodied adult, that wished to work and paid wages that guaranteed at least a two-hundred percent increase in their yearly income. With low cost electricity, fresh water, and additional water through existing desalinization plants, the cost of living was reduced at the same time earnings increased, making our island a good place to live. Some of our neighbors thought that giving natives those socio-economic advantages would lead to uprisings, and violence, but we. Juli just looks up at him and shakes her head and continues patting Nikki and whispering and kissing her. Joe takes both into his arms and comforts both of them. His wife who is looking like she might be gone, so withdrawn she isn’t responding, just sobbing and shaking and clinging. Nikki makes a move of her head and finally notices Joe and releasing Juli, crushes Joe in her arms, clinging to him desperately. Now she begins wailing with her sobs, asking why, why, why?Harry comes to Joe and says. "Well, it seems that I will be retiring. I'll be staying around thehouse mostly, helping out with things while Editha continues on with thebusiness," Grant replied with as much dignity as he could muster."You do look healthy though Mr. Wellsley. Must be the clean shaven look.Your skin looks smoother but those little diamond stud earrings?" Samasked."Ah, trying to appear a bit younger, more hip. But at least I'm past theface lift," Grant said trying to pass it off as he noticed Sam lookinghis.