We had made love and where sharing a cigarette. She put it out in the ashtray. She told me she was in love with this guy. He was smart and wonderful. ...e had a very promising future. He knew about her past, just not all of it.She said she needed to stop seeing me. It wasn’t fair to him.I became angry. I still felt possessive of her. I told her she wasn’t cut out to be an American wife. I asked her if he really knew what she needed?She became angry. “What? I am supposed to be someone’s mistress. . a lot. It would be very very tempting to let you..." She stopped. "It would just be very tempting, okay" He nodded. "And if we did have sex I could get pregnant, and that would be a disaster, so I can't get in there with you naked."He frowned. "So let me see if I got this straight. You thought about having sex, and sort of wanted to, but there wasn't no feller around you wanted to get hitched to, so you didn't. And now you like me, and might want to have sex with me, except you don't want to,. ‘Can you stay a while?’ I asked. ‘As long as you want.’ ‘I’m gonna need a safety net.’ I told him. ‘I’ve got to let someone else know you’re here, do you mind?’ He shook his head, and I phoned Linda. She was puzzled when I asked her to keep phoning me about once an hour, and to call the police if I didn’t answer, but she agreed without asking too many questions. I think the explanation that I had a man with me at long last was enough for her for the time being, although her tone made it clear. "He kissed her and said, "I felt like you had been cut from my body. Sleeping alone, after having you next to me, has absolutely nothing going for it."The five days he spent in the Eastern Time zone caused him to awaken early. He carefully extracted her from his clutch and went to find coffee. Some days, he felt that the invention of the coffee pot with the automatic timer might have been one of life's greater inventions. Although it was too early for the automatic function to have occurred, he.