. Stan!" Your Stan? Look, Anne, I know he's your man and all, but ... Well. I'll tell you what. Put a proposal together for each, get their résumés ...n, and Ken and I will look them over. But no promises, okay?" Okay, Sid! You won't regret it, I promise." I mean it. No promises. I'm not sure we can afford one, let alone two new people." He smiled a little at her. "Do what I said and we'll check it out. We need to keep you happy and productive, after all." Yes, Sid, you do!" she told him through. The following Monday all the supervisors and lower management were called to a meeting scheduled to start at 2:00pm when it was deemed that both shifts would be available. Presumably, higher management already knew what was happening. There were fourteen people sat in the boardroom waiting when Bill McElney, the Managing Director, walked in with three other people in tow. My heart sank the moment I recognised one of them. It was Rachel Evans' mother, the woman who had struck me at the match. I. "Another guy was standing there. "What works? What could I say that... ?"I shrugged. "Maybe nothing. We're going to look at giving sponsors an extra slot to take the husband. But YOU'RE NO LONGER HER HUSBAND! If a sponsor takes you both on, she's HIS woman and any sharing goes from HIM to YOU, not vice-versa. He's doing you a big favor -- and if you spit in his face, you might wish you'd never been born!" I eyed them both. "Frankly, I think we're asking for a lot of trouble -- we should split. "I heard his words and knew it was coming. He wasn't going to wait until after we had eaten... he was going to hit me with it now. I could see it in his eyes. He was enjoying his little game with me, and though I knew I deserved no better, I still was crying out deep inside for him to want me, to need me. I braced myself for what was to come."And, what you had to do is... ?" Sue, I love you. I always have. What you did... what happened, it cut me to the core... but even after that I still knew,.