Sharon loved reading and I always found it annoying that within seconds of a fuck she would go back to her book. She claimed it calmed her after sex. ...y thoughts were not going to let me drift off to sleep.Sharon and I both turned forty this year. We have been together for twelve years and don't have children. We have good jobs in the insurance industry and live very comfortably. The spark had definitely gone out of our relationship.Sex was always the same. I would start by stroking her back or. After that day, I started taking caffeine pills before and during sessions with the camera.Looking back, this was a terrible idea. It threw off my sleep pattern, drove away my appetite, and wrecked me emotionally. I may as well have started smoking, something I promised my uncle, a physician, that I would never do. Within weeks, I was carrying in my purse a bottle of No Doze, Excedrin, and a can of liquid caffeine almost everywhere I went ... and even then it seemed I barely managed to get. ..' Echoing my concerns, after all, this is a school night!Sara had run out a few hours before to her friend Megan's house for a mid-week study party. I had no delusions that they were doing much studying, more likely getting stoned and drinking crappy booze. Lately my wife had taken to prodding me to walk in on her anytime we suspected she was out of line, Sara needed to know there were limits to the freedom any high schooler could have, even if she was 18!'Ok Shelley,' I replied. 'Give me a. Mr. Buccannon had tried to insist that she be driven by a company limousine, but Nikki felt the need to get away from the city, and it’s trappings. She was, after all, a country girl herself. She’d grown up in a village in outer Russia isolated and insulated from the outside world. And even though she had never re- gretted her move to America, she still missed the majesty and silence of the mountains and forests of her ancestral homeland. Nikki had started her trip with the top.