‘Sure.’ he responded. This made Shelia’s smile even larger. Thomas quickly finished his beer and Stacey returned with another. Shelia took anoth...r sip of her drink and closed her eyes once more, enjoying the feel of it as the alcohol made its way down her throat. She could feel it as it entered her tummy, warming her from the inside. Her confidence growing. When Stacy returned, Thomas finished his beer in two more swallows. He started his second beer a bit more slowly then his first. Shelia. A middle aged man in a suit stepped out of the limo, and six tough looking thugs with bats and pieces of pipe piled out of the van.“Your time is up old man, you either sign these papers selling us the land, or my boys are going to take this place and you apart,” the guy in the suit said rather snottily while looking up at us. Our family’s reply was simple but predictable to anyone who knew us. Five shotguns appeared in our hands pointed at them, but it was Chris and I who fired ours over the. Her mind whirled with indecision. Maybe she should have left well enough alone. Richard was entitled to his quirks. He didn’t have to share every single detail of his life to her. He was a good husband, most of the time, the times when his strange behavior—his other self—did not emerge and put a damper on their marital bliss… Notebooks were neatly stacked in one corner of the trunk. The notebooks had dates on the covers. Sheets of paper with notes scribbled messily were scattered on the. Surprisingly, we were able to separate our work and personal lives. We fell deeply in love and within a year, we were married. She filled a void in my life I'd not consciously known existed.My supervisors, aware of her talents and their desire to remove her from my department, promoted her to a position similar to mine. This created demands on her time and we saw less and less of one another. We both traveled a great deal, often at varying times. Sex was infrequent, hurried and frantic. I.