I quickly closed the door, and stood in the way. The light level dropped even more. "Mark, come on, let me in there." Not a hope. I don't want anythin... now. I've changed my mind."And still with a smile on her face: "Well then, you have to pay a toll for waking me." What sort of toll?" A lip kind of toll." Oh?" Oh."So I put my arms out, and took my angel in my arms. Holding her close in her thin nightie, I could feel all her wonderful curves as though she were naked. Our lips locked together,. Sheryl liked the short term affairs because she enjoyed the seduction and the thrill of the first few times with a new lover. Her young lovers would move on after the novelty of fucking a forty-year-old married woman wore off. That was just the way Sheryl liked it. After an affair, Sheryl would spend a few months being a full-time mother and wife until she had the urge to find another young stud to seduce.Sheryl’s affair with a twenty-four-year-old aerobics instructor ended three months ago.. “I fervently hope that the surgery and chemo work, but you need to prepare yourself for it not working. Encourage her, be as positive as you can with her, but you aren’t Captain Kirk and this isn’t a simulation. There’s no computer to reprogram. She’s in the hands of her doctors just like I was after my accident. There was literally nothing you could personally do to change the outcome with me. You can’t personally change the outcome with her. Life isn’t Star Trek.”“Fuck you,” I said, but I. Or at least, your heart is telling you right now that there’s nothing wrong with any sort of love, as long as the love is pure and kind, like I want ours to be.”Michael spoke up then. “Jessie, we don’t want you to do anything you don’t want to do. Any time you feel that you’re in over your head, just let us know, and we’ll stop. We love you, and we want to make you happy.”And then Claire dropped the third bomb. “I don’t think it would be fair to Jessie to commit to something she doesn’t know.