Despite her vociferous outbursts, I knew she loved every minute of it and she would often do something just to force me to take corrective action to p...t her back into her proper place.Sometimes when I was a bad boy, I would let her do the same to me and she seemed to enjoy dishing it out. Her eyes would be flashing with excitement and she would shout her ex-husband's name in my ear telling me I was going to get a lot worse before she was finished. Once or twice, she really scared me with the. Mine was almost twice that size and worth, literally, millions. Millions and millions of dollars.I also had my bank send my ex a large check for several hundred thousand dollars – for my daughter.I continued in Alaska for another year, but how do you top that?By now I had been gone almost nine years.I used a small part of my riches to purchase several hundred acres in Montana. A place so far off the grid I thought no one could ever find me. A place so far off the grid ... no one would ever have. Top shot. They fell backwards with the shock. Which caused a ruckus in the room. Another teacher walked into the room asking “Who was last to leave the last class.” No one answered. Luke grabbed Mary hand holding it down.The first teacher asked “Why?”“They have just found two sports boys laid out on the floor, they are being taken to hospital now. We are just wondering if anyone saw anything.” Mary looked at Luke who smiled at her.Everyone started talking so Luke answered Mary, “They will be OK. "Jack, every word you've said is the simple truth," and she felt her cheeks warm as she smiled. He really is making this easy for me.Deb could not say what her lamb tasted like, and Jack's medallions des boeufs were mostly still on the plate when the entrée was removed and the dessert menu presented. The time had flown by, she realized, without her noticing, and she was as comfortable with Jack on a date as she'd ever been anywhere else.When she looked across the desert menu and met his eyes,.