’ Lorena explained. ‘That’s nice of him.’ I said. ‘Yeah, well he owes me. You know, I pay him alimony?’ Lorena said. ‘Oh?’ ‘Yes, I m...de a lot more than he ever did. During the divorce he went for the throat.’ She said. ‘None of my business. So, are you enjoying yourself on this trip?’ I asked. ‘For the most part yes but one thing has been sorely lacking.’ She replied. Knowing the answer I played into her hands. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Physical companionship, from a man.’ Lorena said shyly. ‘So you’re. So I hooked her up with these pages and let her read the whole thing, alot of it was stuff we'd talked about before, other liaisons and such. But she learned how I'd met her husband and his partner and how we were kind of seeing each other before she and I met by design. I watched her while she read it and occasionally asked if she was ok, she was a little upset and teary but I editorialized as she read how I felt at the time and why we were doing it, like how she and her husband weren't happy. A pang of anxiety swept through me. Three weeks was a long ways away. A lot could happen in that time. Too much... Abruptly, I remembered that Bill had gone off to college. I needed to stop letting my thoughts run so rampant. Get a grip, Matt... Pete intruded on my thoughts. “You ever smoked weed?” he asked.I hesitated. “Um, yeah. When I was camping with Lara a few weeks ago, we met some people and they had some.”“Cool.”For a second, I considered telling him about the three college girls, but I. Helena watched him into the distance from the battlements and continued watching until sunset imagining she could see him and his army moving to the south and to the seas to Rome. Only then did she weep. Never, she thought. I will never know another like that.A hand gently stroked her back. She turned expecting Adele or Colin but found instead Sir Moreland.He spoke tenderly as he brush a stray hair from her cheek, "Child, why ye weep so?" He used his own shirtsleeve to dry her eyes, "Are ye.