I Have my phone they will ring if they need us, she lay back on the towel to enjoy the sun on her body, me and Pat chatted about this and that but mos...ly nothing, then I said to Pat I’m sure that’s my Paul coming up the beach I looked over to Helen but she seemed to be dozing, it is I waved until he noticed me, I looked again at Helen who still appeared to be dozing but now her legs were bent up and slightly open I presume for my husbands benefit when he got to us. He reached us and he couldn’t. .. I thought... he loved me."Of course he loved you, silly thing, he didn't forget you did he? How many girls your age are millionaires twice over?" I guess so," she said thoughtfully, "I didn't mean to have a go at you, it's not your fault I know, but I just was so shocked." Her arm went around my waist and held me tight."It's OK Fliss, as I said I want you to feel the house is still your house and nothing changes there. I loved Paul intensely and you are part of him to me so I love you too.". "Must be a slow day," I said as I walked into the store. "Sharon, can't you go out in the corridor and offer a lap dance to passersby and get some business in this place?" Sure, Boss Man. Right after I go in the back room and inhale a few hits off my stash," she replied."Is that what I smell?" We need to fix that exhaust fan back there," said Mike. "It doesn't work."I looked at him and smiled. "Don't you think it would be best to take it out side in the first place? You know the cops are not. Her response was to go ballistic and threaten to do all sorts of terrible things to the kids if I left her. Knowing her, it was too likely that she would go through with some of the outrageous things she threatened, so I agreed to stay with her, but I knew she would never change. I actually stayed nine more years, but this story is about the first year after the blowup.My work went well. My new company worked at the state of the art in Aerospace electronics and I had a lot of catching up to.