" Go on." Mary, until now, you have never had a real family to love and that accepted you. Aunt Bessie was always a substitute, no matter how much you...loved each other. You always knew you didn't have a Mom and Dad." I suppose that's true. But I got along all right." She grinned ruefully. "That sounds defensive, even to me." It's thanks to Aunt Bessie and to your own courage and goodness that you did. But now that's over, things have changed. Now you have the love you wanted and never had. You. "We'll figure it out."Something cold trickled down my spine. "But when do you think?"His tie wasn't even done as he reached for the hotel door's knob. "We'll see."****************I didn't have his number. That stupid, ridiculous fact didn't come to mind until I was pulling up my driveway.On one hand this was good. I couldn't text him late at night, and I couldn't call and plead for him to meet me somewhere.On the other hand I couldn't do any of these things and was left wretched and unsure.It. You’re only 10 minutes into your ambush.’ Instead, I said, ‘I’d really like to invoke the 24 hour rule and sort through what we need to say to each other.’ ‘Fine,’ she said as she got up from her chair and walked out of the room. It wasn’t like, ‘Fine, that sounds reasonable and fair.’ It sounded more like, ‘Fine. I’ve got you’re your balls in my purse anyway.’ I spent the better part of the afternoon holed up in my study assessing the pros and cons of really making my marriage work, or if I. Then something shocked the hell out of me!Present – Stacy – At Bob's country bunkerWell, Ben blew up a truck and that got the banditos pissed at us again and they attacked. So I began firing the fifty again. I had seen the girls in the bikinis shooting some sort of bombs at the banditos with a big slingshot and it looked like a lot of fun. But then I had a more important job, and I really liked this big machine gun.I was doing a great job when...Present – Major "MadDog" MurdockMy threat.