After a short silence which she felt no compulsion to break, he continued, "Could you come to Washington to talk about it? ... Please?"The "please" ha... all the hallmarks of a rarely used afterthought."I suppose I could be there Saturday afternoon," she said cautiously, "if you email me directions. Directions to your office I mean; I do actually know where Washington is."Arriving at the campaign headquarters, she found the expected controlled chaos as the building almost shook from the combined. He was gasping for air and holding his chest when I kicked him in the nuts. Then I felt my arms being grabbed from behind and I was pulled away from Brian."Stop it. You're going to kill him." That was the plan", I told the officer. The cop just looked at his partner and said "We didn't hear that."I went over to Alex and took off my shirt and covered her with it. 2 EMTs came in and sat her down. They looked into her eyes and took her vitals."She's on something," one of them said. "We'd better. I had touched her body over the time multiple times and I had never observed a different behaviour towards me after that.I could say confidently that she liked me. It was not like a mother-in-law liking her son-in-law kinda like. It was slightly more like a teacher liking his favorite student in the classroom. After all, I had married her daughter and she might have told some good things of me doing on the bed. As a lonely woman, she must have been aroused by those things.A year had gone after. But deeper inside, a primal part of her demanded to be allowed its chance ... to be allowed to step to the front and help her fulfill her destiny. It might not get its way ... she might not conceive... probably would not conceive, it told her. After all, this was only supposed to happen once. A quick fix. A way to blow off steam. The thought that it was over made her stomach feel ill. She couldn’t stop with just once. And he’d already shown he was ready to go again ... to mate with her again..