Dan was an arrogant but very rich man and Janet was hisvoluptuous trophy wife. Their married was headed for divorce, but beforethat could happen, the...prenuptial contract they both signed said theymust go to couple's therapy before divorce lawyers. Dr. Zaaijer decidedthat besides the changes he would make in the couple, that Dr. Zaaijerdeserved all that Dan owned. That was a fact and the easy part, but whatwas to become of Dan and Janet once he got all their money. That was theharder. The next day, New Year's Day 2002, like in the middle of the afternoonwith stupid football all over TV, she gave me a call."So," was the first thing out of her mouth and just hearing her voiceagain turned my whole body into jelly. "How was your New Year?" Shitty," I admitted. "Everyone is sick and you ditched me for NewYork." Yeah, sorry. We got to extend and I couldn't say no. God, we got inlike an hour ago. I'm so exhausted." Well, yeah. How was your New Year?" I want to say, 'Shitty,' but. Nathan supposed it was a normal emotion, but he couldn’t imagine Paulette caring one whit one way or the other about the c***d. Her tears seemed incongruous.“I’ve sent money to my daughter and have written over the years to her. She’s a good c***d, and has always answered.”‘ “What about the father?”“He was a good man, I think, deep in his soul. At least he didn’t try to keep me from contacting her. He swore I couldn’t see her. We said good night to them both and headed to our bungalow.***I turned and closed the door to the bungalow and immediately I felt Jade’s hand wrap around my torso. Her fingers were searching for the buttons on my shirt. I remained where I was as she unbuttoned the top few buttons and I undid the ones at the bottom. As soon as my shirt was open I turned around and kissed her, shrugging the shirt off my shoulders and allowing Jade to push it down my arms till it fell to the floor.Picking her up I.