It shouldn't, as some real nutcases think, exceed the infraction. A revenge affair shouldn't extend long than the original activity. Turning a husband...into a cuckold, for example, isn't justice, it is cruelty. It exceeds the actual finite harm of the act. It is worse than the offender deserves and so should not be the penalty for that deed. Just as mercy is not justice, neither is cruelty. True justice requires karmic balance and mathematical proportionality and precision. It is a scalpel, not. I have some other things that came with them. Some I'm keeping and some I'm letting go. If you're satisfied then I got to split. I got another appointment to turn loose of some of it. I don't think you would be interested in it so I didn't offer it to you." You know me, I'm always looking for a good deal. Stay loose and don't let the Ice freeze your butt. And hey, keep in touch, I miss you."We buzzed north to the Aurora Village Mall where I was to meet with Dee. The Wrecked Deck was another. Her eyes sharpened and perfectly sculpted eyebrows pinched in, simply giving her a more dangerous and angular look. She stared at me for a long few moments, her jaw quivering as real anger started to come into her eyes. And then without another word, she strode past me in a hurry."Adrienne?" I asked."Fuck off, Ben," she spat and marched away.I'll never understand women.That night, just after 11pm, I cornered Brandi in the kitchen while she was pouring herself some coffee. Habit from college.. She is so much into the mother hen watching over her fledglings with 2 daughters, 2 sons and 4 grandkids yet she is like that with all of us which sometimes is asphyxiating and even scary. Although my family lives in Italy, MAMA (as we call her) knows whatever arises around me, it’s like she’s got a spy near me 24/7. That must be it, otherwise she can teletransport while being invisible? My truth, my family is special in more ways than saying that we have the money and the power to sometimes.