She wore a thong style white bikini bathing suit, as she prepared a rabbit for roasting. He could see little tufts of black hair at the edge of the th...ng. He murmured "Merry"."I heard you, Gene. But I wanted to see how you would be, what you would do. You passed the first test by not acting as though you owned me just 'cause you fucked me." She put down the knife she had been using and came to him, kissing him deeply. Both were surprised at the tingling they felt from being together. "Let me. Or maybe more than a hint. He squared his shoulder. Well, he thought, my pecs and shoulders aren't too bad. Shaking his head at himself, he pushed his insecurities from his mind and counted his blessings. His one soft, feminine and ever so sexy blessing. Stacy loved him and that was all that mattered.He opened the door and exited the bathroom. As his eyes adjusted to the darker hotel room, he saw his wife silhouetted against the glass balcony door that looked down on the beach.Stacy was naked,. Without a car, the hour drive might as well have been ten. I thought about her, especially since Jason would not let it rest. But I let my own insecurities talk me into believing that it had been nothing more than an extended one night stand. I mean, she was really out of my league. I’m all right looking, but Kris is gorgeous. Once she got back to Waterloo, the guys would be all over her and I would become a footnote. So the first letter was a surprise. I practically ran back to my room to read. He was most often up by eight o’clock, even when he went to sleep at four in the morning. Sleep wasn’t something that came very easily for him anyway so he figured why fuss around with it if it wasn’t going to happen. He would sleep when he was tired, sometimes he’d nap a bit during the hot, lazy part of the day. When he was on the beach and stretched out, he seldom slept, even when he appeared to be doing so. He was listening, to the sounds of the ocean, the people and even the seagulls.