And that’s the last time I’ll ever have to do anything like that too. From here on in, I’m staying local. I told Greg and Kate I’d want out of...the partnership if I carried on having to spend months abroad.’ Melissa’s breath seemed to catch in her throat. ‘How did they take that?’ ‘Much better than I was expecting. In fact, it turns out they’ve been waiting for me to say it for a while. So we’re going to invite a couple of the juniors to step into the breach, dangle the promise of becoming a. “I preferthe two-legged kind.” A tug at my throat at thesuggestion, however, indicated to me I was probablylying. I had been affected, by both the incident andHelen’s story. If I could just try it without anyonefinding out about it, I thought.“Well then,” she announced, kissing me on the shoulder.“Let’s have some dinner.” She left me then to finishdressing.Clyde soon reappeared at the door. He seemed almosthuman now that I had heard Helen’s. Every time we talked like this, the sex was extra good but Jen remained adamant that she was not willing to actually fuck anyone but me.Jen was not a virgin when I met her but she was far from experienced. Her experience was limited to letting a few of her dates feel her tits and one poorly planned romp, in the back seat of her boyfriend's car, that cost her, her virginity.I was surfing the net one night, while Jen was out with her friends, and found a swingers chat room. I chatted with Bill. " Bobby," she sighed softly. "I've watched you all these years, although out here it was really more like a couple of hours. Time is different here. I was there when you fainted at the airport and I was there when you went through all those dangerous missions in Viet Nam, trying to get yourself killed. You didn't find another girl, hell you didn't even try to. I wanted more than anything for you to be happy, but all these years you just dragged on."This afternoon when you cried on the guitar.