Saturday night dinner was hamburgers. Sunday, Kelly did a roast. The world didn’t bother us again until Monday, when Kelly went off to Matucket Stat... and the kids went off to school. After that I began shutting down Reaper Security Consulting. I called Dom Ballantine and all the other chiefs and sheriffs I was working with and made appointments to see them later in the week. If I was ending my business with them, they deserved to hear it from me face to face.Then I took a nap. The older I get,. She watchs as I slowly turn and walk over to where the candles sit on the dresser. She hears the click of a lighter, and can see the reflection of the light from the candles in the mirror behind them. She breathes in the scent of the freshly lit candles, and watchs as I slowly turn and walk back towards the bed. She lays there watching me and feels the side of the bed sink slightly as I sit down, leaning over and whispering in her ear “ I still love you.” as I softly brush her hair away from. The bag was unzipped a bit so I could see it all day. The man that you hurt last night approached me today as I was leaving. I did what you said, I waved the knife at his face, I yelled at him too. He went away. I was all fucked up for a while after that sitting in my car. I don’t know what I should do now. The only thing I could think of was to come back here.’ She had tears on her cheeks by the time she finished. Morgan pulled out two chairs from under the workbench, and wiped away the dust. We had moved in only two months ago and had by now met most of our neighbors. It was a most friendly neighborhood and we had been invited to four parties already. We had bonded quickly with our neighbors to the south, Al and Dottie, or rather Dorothy, which had been her name when we had first met them.She had been so prim and proper, even a bit mousy. Her dress made only one statement, I want to get lost in the crowd. But that changed two weeks ago at our party. She told me just the other day.