Crap, its Rita’s bitchy friend Ashley.Ashley is the girl in those TV high school dramas that everyone hates, but secretly wants to be friends with. ...he’s 5'5, 110 pounds of pure evil. She looks at me with this nasty look like I ran over her cat or something. “Nice to see you too Ashley,” I said sarcastically. “Come on girl I’m having a party at my house tonight, by brother bought us beer again!” “No that’s ok, I’m here with my brother,” she responded as she looked at me and smiled. “Oh come on. "I mean Mallory and I had an understanding, so it's notlike she was cheating on me. "Maggie didn't know what to say. She felt like a block of ice was sittingon her chest, crushing her heart. She had fallen for Mallory, big time,complete with sappy poetry and the desire to see grandkids."I still want to be friends. I mean, we've had a lot of fun." Sam grew anembarrassed blush at that point, and Maggie realized that Mallory hadprobably filled him in on details."Just not..." Maggie asked, knowing. " Yeah, I know. I wouldn't give this up for anything. I came so close to losing it too. Patty insisted on a Pre Nuptial agreement before the marriage to protect her savings and potential inheritance. She had her attorney leave out protection for me and I didn't catch it. My father caught the fact the agreement only protected her and sent me to an attorney who advised me to include wording in it to protect my pre marriage property like she did hers. If I hadn't done that, she might very well. They cuddled and kissed for several minutes and promised each other to be true from her on. Then Gus suggested that they get cleaned up and dressed. ‘Let’s go to lunch and make it our main meal today. We will get some champagne and toast each other to our new future,’ Gus suggested. Barbara enthusiastically agreed and they did just that. They went to their favorite French restaurant and had a delicious meal. They also had a bottle of excellent champagne and recommitted to each other with a.