I'm no longer the moralistic, uptight person I was. If you've finished that royale, would you like something stronger?" I may need it, Beth. You're al...eady surprising me all to hell with this new liberal attitude. If I didn't know you so well, I might even think that you've taken a lover yourself. There's a radiance about you, a happy youthfulness I never expected to see."Carefully, Eddie and Linda watched their auntie get glasses and mix drinks in them. After Isobel had sipped half of hers,. I put my bags in June’s trunk and then opened one suitcase to retrieve the Coach handbags. They were overjoyed to get them and surprised that I spent so much money on them. I made like it was a big deal but actually the handbags were inexpensive knock offs. I took the happy family to lunch. I was hungry as breakfast had been many hours ago. We went to one of our favorite casual restaurants and soon we were ushered to a table. June and Summer removed their red leather jackets and sat down. I. After all, she thought as she stared at the easy chair in the livingroom, it was only yesterday I was getting ready for my date with Alex.She sighed. Gosh, what a fool I was. I was so stupid to fall head overheels for him and all my fantasies of being his wife! So dumb, so dumb.Frankie sat on the arm of the chair. What was going to happen to her?Some moments she reacted like a brainless fifteen-year-old schoolgirlfull of hormones. Wiping the tears from her eyes, she moved back onto the deck to. The first person to accumulate $100 had to host the next weekend, so there was a small impetus to win, but not win too big.Roxy turned out to be the big winner of the first three or four hands, demonstrating her prowess at playing some serious poker. Then, the beer and the whiskey came out. Things got more serious after that. Roxy held her own, but quickly decided to sit out a few hands.“I don’t want to blow all my money at once,” she proffered with a wink.“Don’t worry,” I told Roxy, “James.