"DID I say you could move" She quickly re assumed the position. I wanted it to sink in that she had to behave and listen to me, I did not want to be d...ing this again, even if I did REALLY enjoy it. Anyway, I kept ranting for a bit longer until I saw a tear roll down her cheek and fall to the ground. Feeling very guilty now, I parted my legs and told her to sit on my right knee. I then hugged her and she hugged me soooooo hard. Without thinking about it I put one hand on her saw buttock and she. “The decimal coins, whatever they make them from, aren’t safe to cook in the pudding like the old silver coins were.”By mid-afternoon, people were starting to make their ways home. Chris and Jack said they had to leave to get things ready for the start of the Hobart Race tomorrow (which according to Mary Beth, meant spending at least two hours in bed together), so the rest of us decided to stop off at my parents’ place. After thanking Mr. and Mrs. Winters for having everyone around for lunch,. “Uh, I know this sounds, maybe, a little selfish. But when we got married, Alex didn’t carry me across the threshold. This isn’t the same – I mean we aren’t getting married, but well, I haven’t had sex since I caught my husband with the teenybopper, and I...”Fred stood and pulled her to her feet. Scooping her into his arms, he gently kissed her and walked toward the RV. “Close enough,” he whispered to her. “Close enough.”Audrey buried her face against his chest and savored the moment as Fred. A flood of memories washed over him as he remembered growing up in that house. His father had been dead for three years, and the house rented by someone else, by the time Mark left Thunder Bay as a young man.One memory in particular came back to him. He was 13 years old, and his father had joined him in the living room a few months after the death of his mother. They were discussing the need for him to do well in school, and he could still hear his father saying, "It's important that you do.