You look so grownup tonight." Thanks Mom. But I would have felt much better if I was wearing my jeanslike I wanted." Well, I think this looks much nic...r and its much more appropriate fordinner with your father so stop being such a baby. You look very nice sodon't worry. You'll be fine, Danielle." Do you need to go to the bathroom before your Dad gets here? I know howyou are when you get a bit nervous." Yes." I laughed. Mom was right. She knew me oh so well. "You're right. Ido have to pee."After. .. Armand chuckled. "I'd thought you were capable of that, but never obtained much in the way of evidence..." Y-you PERVERT!" The humiliation was absolutely incredible. Worse was the fact that it went on and on, through her efforts at recovery -- re- making her bed with new linens... The cameras even followed her into the shower!"AS I said," Armand chuckled. "You only THOUGHT you were living alone..." He began flipping again, and action centered on Nate and Nora -- first, quiet study in her. Hope we’re doing the right thing, Richard. Oh, shit, who can bloody tell? That’s it. Till I hear from you, Love Petal (butterfly wings) xx As I finished reading, my phone beep-beeped in my pocket. I fished it out and brought up the message. ‘Hi Richard, you now have my number. Call tomorrow if you can. Anytime after 9:00. Night, night xx’ I saved the number to my contacts and then switched off my computer and made my way downstairs, taking the brandy and my glass. I settled into a chair and. And I promise you I’ll come home and we’ll talk as soon as I’m ready. As soon as I can.”I looked into Sue’s loving face, the face that had been there morning and night for nearly all my adult life, and I worried more than I’ve ever worried about anything in my entire life. It was like a blackjack table where every risk or every danger I’d ever taken with our marriage had come back to haunt me. All the black markers now piled high on a single square, with all the odds facing away from me.Sue.