"Oh crap, he knows!" shot through my brain as he shook her hand graciously, while at the same time searching into her eyes for the truth. Louise's eye... met his for a moment then quickly shot away, desperately searching for an escape from all this awkwardness. She picked up some menus and said, "Come, I'll take you to a nice booth." As I followed Louise down the aisle, my ears rang with my boot steps and nervously concentrated on Doug's as he followed. When we were comfortably seated, he took. The children were no better or worse than usual, but my mood was so good that I handled them well and minimized their little problems that way. Peter and I had great clients at work, and my team had commissioned two new clients that we had been trying to get for quite a while. Except for my brief moments, I almost forgot about the other woman and the rendezvous Peter had planned with her. Then, on the Wednesday, I rang the massage place to confirm my massage with Ezie, when I noticed that in. ”I went to the kitchen and started working on dinner. The girls started on homework which left me alone with my thoughts. I went back over my relationship with Kara, trying to figure out where I’d gone so horribly wrong. I kept coming back to the conversation that she and I had about limits and how I should have drawn a clear line for her. What I hadn’t realized is just how fragile Kara was, and the tightrope she was walking between her life before that first day in chemistry class and last. Things were being said beyond her range of hearing.Well, whose fault was that?She looked at the basement stairwell. If it was a private conversation, they would have closed the door. So..." ... it's so much to take in at once."That was her Mom. Betty took a couple more steps down, then stopped and sat just where the side of the stairway disappeared and she could get a look at them. They were in beanbag chairs. Mom had hers up against the support pole, giving her back support, while the three.