." Max walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her, hugging her tight. Her pulse jumped. "Candice, thanks for seeing me so soon." Then he relea...ed her. She liked the hug. Another one on the way back to her car, after letting him down easy, would be ok. Her pulse remained increased.Max said "I got you a double espresso. It's in the van. Get in." Max opened the passenger door of the raised van. [The VAN is his! OMG a van is not what a happily married woman has coffee in with a man not her. Finding her alone for some time I approached her and said ” What aunty? — you are not keeping up with your words”. She smiled and said ” What — don’t you think of anything else?”. I said ” I am very eager to touch you and I find it very difficult to think of anything else”. She only smiled and did not say anything.I further said ” I was keeping quiet and you only opened up the topic – now you are avoiding it — if you do not want it why in the first place you talked with me and raised my. Mary asked me if I could get her away from this place.We loaded our luggage into my Explorer and headed for Birmingham. Mary asked me if I knew of a place she could hide for a few weeks, I told her I was not going back to my apartment and have to face Libby there. I told Mary I was taking care of a friends forty acre farm while he was in Europe for six months. I was going there to spend what was left of the night. Mary asked if I would let her join me there for a while. I told Mary " No problem. I knew the situation when I decided I wanted to go to bed with him and I was willing to accept it. So here I am. But, and he believes this too, that in fifty days, that life is a thing of the past.”I nodded, grinned, and said, “I do.”“Not yet, you dolt! Four years from now, you say that!” Kara giggled, leaning over to kiss my shoulder.A few minutes later, Kara and I left the sauna, and she grabbed my hand to bypass the shower. We had a repeat of the previous session under the comforter, our.