I saw the glance the two exchanged, the subtle, disappointed shake of the head Lissa gave her mom. "Here mom, you can sit here -- there's only two cha...rs. Jason gave the other one away." This last with a flippant gesture of disgust in my direction.Denise was clearly a bit weary on her feet, and sat gratefully, with a heavy sigh. Lissa stood with her hands on her hips for a moment. Trying to build up the nerve to... "Here, uncle Jason -- let me sit on your lap." I somehow had known it was. It’s finding the right husband that I’ve had trouble doing until I found Scott.”“I sure can tell that Dad loves you.”“And I love him too. It took me long enough to find my Mr. Right. Wish I had met your dad two husbands ago,” she joked. “Look at this crazy family of ours. We all interact and depend on each other just like the players on your hockey team do.” Vicky stood, offering her hand to Peter. “Come on, it’s time for you to do some apologizing and a major suck-up job to Abby.”Pete exhaled. “Trip is all set Ma’am. You depart in the morning via the company jet.” Tracy did not even bother to ask where it was. She just assumed that Nicolas would handle it like everything else and know what she wanted. She knew her clothes would be packed and her travel materials would be already on the plane when she arrived at the airport in the morning. When she arrived in the morning, she boarded the plane and again found her favorite plush seat for the trip. After takeoff and climbing to. “Tighter,” Jess said. Emma paused, unsure, but undid the buckle and pulled them two holes tighter before reclosing them.“Better,” Jess said. “Now do my wrists with the other one.”Emma did so, much quicker this time, and that left Jess firmly secured, naked and on all fours in our living room, unable to do anything other than wiggle around. I would hear about the story later (damn you, employer, for making me work late that night!) and as it happens things would work out pretty well for me. So.