..well be careful I yelled back. The music was loud and the grill was smelling good. I had lost track of time and before I knew it I saw my wife come ...hrough the gate and headed toward me. She came up real close so we could talk over the music, I asked well did you get it? She said yeah, and I brought back the Rum too. She started walking away. I followed her and asked where are you going? She said I need to pee. I followed her inside and into the bathroom. She said I know what your doing, I. "Robby and me, that's him up front, we want to know what Wilkins' told you about the business and what you can tell the cops."Vixen looked at him slantwise and nodded again."You read the papers?" Yes," the girl said. "You stole a lot of money."The man snorted. "Our company failed. It happens. The damn Finns, those boys ate our breakfast, lunch and dinner." But you got rich, you and Robby, didn't you? You guys and some others."The man smiled. "We got paid and put some away, sold our options,. After experiencing his idea of paradise in the years they were together, nothing else could compare anymore. She was his soul mate, his other half, but also his Pandora’s box now that she was gone. As Tom wandered into the kitchen, he found his roommate already helping herself to a bowl of Froot Loops. Tom and Layla’s mothers were friends and colleagues, so the two of them had known each other since they were kids. They’d gone through pre-K to Grade 12 together, and their childhood friendship. Her compliments, whether true or simply to encourage me, were the nicest things she could have done to give confidence to such an unsure lover.Every virgin needs someone like Jo to school them in the art of love. For ten days she taught me, teaching me how to both please a woman and myself. We both cried when I had to leave and go back to Georgia."You be gentle with all those Georgia girls Rod," she'd ordered. "I don't want you breaking every heart in Hinesville." Christ, I'd wanted to quit.