I wondered how he could sit her in this situation and speak so freely. Before I had time to think on it too much though, there was a knock on the door... I quickly ushered Scott into my room and showed him a nice bathrobe one of my previous male friends had left here. “Put this on and wait for us to come get you OK Scott?”He said that he would.“And PLEASE, don’t do anything.” I said, winking at him as I did. He just smiled.As I entered the living room again I saw that Don had answered the door. The piercing grasp of the cold took hold of my heart almost immediately, setting it leaping with earnest, cleansing adrenaline. All the dust and sweat and dried-on fluids of the last few days began to just drift away. While the silver-spun moonlight and gentle, babbling silence of this midnight pool soothed what parts of my soul still smouldered.It had been a strenuous few days, my Darlings. Filled with passion and pleasure and endless gasping collisions of physicality. For two nights and a day. She still had one exam to go, or she was already taking it. He could have picked her up outside the exam hall, but she chose otherwise. Finally, the phone rang.“Andy?” It was Marilyn.“I love you. Should I come over now?”“Give me an hour. I’m not packed yet.” Well, at least he had a limit to his worrying.“There in an hour,” he said. “I love you.”“I love you, too.”He looked at his watch. 12:17.He left too much time for the drive. He really could have walked it in the time he allowed. So, he spent. By the end of the week, my own small investment company wasn't so small any more. Juliet had called me a couple of times just to tell me that my former boss had called me all kind of names; but after their lawyer had taken a look at my original contract, he had admitted that there was no other way out of it than to pay me ... or in this case, pay my company. I gave her my approval to negotiate about the timetable of the payment. She was happy to agree as her law firm would get a percentage of.