"You can show me off all you want, it turns me on." "You've got a real loving husband there baby, letting you do this." he told her."Like I have a cho...ce" I muttered.My wife frowned at me. "Of course you do honey, I thought you wanted this?" she questioned. I couldn't think straight and didn't reply. "If you want to stop honey you have to say so." My head spun and I looked at my beautiful young white wife and the dominant black bull that was going to make me a cuckold on my wedding anniversary,. ”Matti and Dawn had just finished their supper. Matti had prepared a simple meal of fried potatoes, pan fried pickerel fillets and sliced tomatoes. While he was doing the cooking, Dawn had set the table and prepared a pot of tea for after the meal.Before that, he had shown her how he filleted the pickerel that they caught. She was quite amazed at the quick transformation from whole fish to edible fillets. When he was finished he had taken a covered 5 gallon pail from beneath the plywood topped. I’m here to collect rent from our tenant, our one tenant. She’s been so great, we’ve had her a year. The lower unit’s been empty, but…there you are, I see you standing out on the balcony of the upper, shaking out some rugs, wearing a tied-off dark blue t-shirt, short cut-off light blue jeans shorts that barely drop below your ass, and green-ringed tube socks pulled up to your knees.You smile and wave at me…you always smile and wave at me. You’re just the goddamned happiest, perkiest, cutest…. The longer I stared at the tree the more I thought that perhaps my finding these things along the way was less the coincidence I'd assumed and more by Gaen's design.Winter had not come to this pool, as it still hadn't truly come to much of the forest yet. It was on its way though, and I wondered how this chestnut, with its ancient magic would fare. I suspected it would retain its identity and character no matter what else happened to the rest of the north wood, and that it would, as it had both.