"Great Mom!" Tanya ran by to go into the house and take a shower."Yeah, it was just great!" Jason too seemed to be in a hurry to get inside.Tex smiled...at Mrs. Reynolds after her children had disappeared."Your children seemed to have enjoyed their first day on horses." Mmmmmm-mmmm," she smiled. She looked up at him ironically.He sat down on a chaise lounge near her and stroked the little blue veins in her hands. He said, "I'm going in to see that everything is ready for dinner. See you later?". " So you two are just friends?" Cynara asked."He has made suggestions that he might be on the cusp of proposing," she demurely looked down."But if he did, you wouldn't say yes would you?" Cynara asked worriedly."He is a perfectly respectable man, and I would have no reason not to," Jane said a little defensively, but in her constant gentle way."But you don't love him!" I know Cynara, but my mother, she wants me to get married. It's only proper." Jane said desperately."Screw being proper,". He often bought presents for Chantal and he took us to the restaurant all the time. One day he even came home with a bran new car for me, he had exchanged my old car for a new SUV. We went shopping together every week and at least twice per month he took me to eat out in a fancy restaurants and afterward we went dancing.Yes, we had the perfect marriage until this fatal day. He came home from work that day and he turned his head away from me when I tried to kiss him on the lips. I knew then that. Very worried. He grabbed his jacket and headed out to the door. He unhitched his horse from the small wagon and hopped on. And headed down the road. It would be very dark soon, pitch black. Maybe he'd see her on her way home and could pick her up. He road up and down the country lanes but there was no sign of her. He turned his horse around and headed back."I've been a fool," he thought. "Damn it, it's just a bicycle. She's been a good wife to me all these years and never gave me any cause to.