"That's not cheating, right?" It's only been in the past month or so that we learned that Kristina was our half sister."Right," says Kristina, laughin.... "I've missed being with you guys, you know, she says. "It's not that I didn't enjoy it..." Hey, shhh," I shush her. "Tell me about this boyfriend. You know that as your ex-boyfriend I have to approve of my replacement." This elicits another laugh from both girls."No problem, Brandon," Kristina says with a smile. "You'll really love him. He's so. She leaned over and kissed him gently on the neck, and smiled up at him. "Now that, Mr. Howard," she said with a scolding tone in her voice, "is something you should have considered before you and Shirley worked out your little arrangement."Betty and Bob reentered the Roberts' living room, passing through a group of people standing in its center."Hey, Betty, Betty Howard," a voice called out from the far side of the room. "I recognized you by your... hehehe... pretty little figure. I hoped I'd. He could mesh them. Lucinda and I would be there to give him all the information and advice we could come up with. The three of us could make it work somehow. I really wanted the couriers to be bicycle types, but I knew that was impractical. Vicksburg MS wasn’t New York City. We would probably force the couriers to drive their own cars.I called on the burner phone then went over, so we were in the office of the Gym drinking coffee when the conversation began. Lucinda was nowhere to be found so. Another complication is that the switch to night shift supervisor has to take place almost at once. That means the last two weeks before Ben deploys, Catherine will be unable to spend those remaining few weeks being intimate with her husband. There never seems to be time in their schedule for an intimate coupling before his departure because of her immediate shift to night duty.Ben’s mother volunteers to come for a visit and help with the children while he is away on deployment, but Ben has to.