"You want me to be a man; I'll be your man, but my way".Now it was her turn to be silent and do some thinking."Fair enough. No more games, teases or h...dden agendas from either one of us. Deal?" she finally stated."Deal" I agreed. "Now I think you had better put on a less revealing outfit so you can lie beside me to watch the movie without me all over you".She was going to say something smartass but as she looked up at me and saw I was serious she stopped, thought for a second and then gave me a. . what... ?” Dad spluttered, looking back and forth from Dougal to Sampson to me to Liz and so on.“I told you we were going with Dougal and Sampson. You assumed they were boys.”“Aaargh!” Dad clutched at his head and garbled a few more words... “I may have mentioned something about them being our dates for the afternoon.” I put on my best little-girl voice. “I’m sorry if I upset you, Daddy.”He pointed a shaky finger at me – or maybe he was shaking his finger at me, I’m not sure – and said, “you,. ''A drunk driver ran the lights and hit him full on, on his bike, he really had no chance against the jeep. I am so sorry, Jessica.'' he put his hand on my mine, squeezing it a little. ** ----- ** ''Mama..., Mamma...,'' Zach's voice brought me back to sitting in the car, soaked through like I was the day Billy died. ''Hmm baby...what's wrong?'', I asked, looking in the rear view mirror. ''Can we go to the swing park?'' he grinned. ''It's a little wet for that, is it not?'', I smiled. ''We're. The weeks flew by. In February Jeanne had a brief flirtation with a man she met in the coffee shop on the first floor of the building where she works. An attorney, his name was Nate. Nate was married, Jeanne preferred married men. He visited her at the house three times. All three times Jeanne entertained him in her boudoir while I watched television in the den next door to them. For an avowed cuckold, watching television while another man is fucking your wife in the adjoining room is erotic.