Sorry I screwed up. I don't know why I did that," Mari replied timidly.He started to frown but stopped as his remaining myriad of stitches, both inter...al and external, painfully protested. He winced instead and sighed, tired of all the reminders of that fateful day. The young husband set his other foot on the ground and carefully put weight on his leg, the bones reinforced by a single steel rod.He reached for the back door handle and responded, "I shouldn't have said anything. It's over and. " I replied, "I see a lovely, sexy woman."She turned to face me directly, putting her arms around me. "That'sexactly what I see, Melissa. I have to make dinner. Why don't you relaxfor a while?"We walked hand in hand to the living room. I sat on the couch and Ellieput my feet up, fondling them as she did so. "I can't wait to show youoff," she said. Then she headed for the kitchen.I asked her what we would be having. "Shrimp scampi," she called back."I deveined them myself." This was a departure.. "Are you sure?" Positive!" said Sherry, excitedly.Carly rolled over. She had been lying on her stomach for the express reason of hiding the "problem." Now the lump in her thin, cotton PJs was obvious. For some reason, she had been unwilling to put on a pair of panties to contain her new appendage. It just seemed wrong, somehow, to encase that manly equipment in a frilly pair of feminine underwear. And it hadn't occurred to her to ask Craig to get her a pair of his jockey shorts. So she was. "I will thinkabout it."Then I changed the subject. "Shane what did you say to Isabel lastnight?"Shane smiled, "I told her to leave you alone for the moment. She isconcerned for you, Maren."I didn't quite believe him, "So what did she say back to you?" She said that she feels your emotional torment so strongly. She reallyis a sensitive empath. I know it isn't your fault, but when you have abad nightmare, your sister feels it strongly as well."I frowned, "I don't mean to bother her."Shane.