"she said with a chuckle. Stevie continued toward the dressing room,seething in anger. Most of the stage personnel, all women of course,had witnesse... the exchange and were smirking. Out of the corner of hiseye he noticed Jane Walker, the female star, had Louise by the arm andwas confronting her. Stevie was mostly irritated at himself. No woman was going to be shownup by a male in public. He thought back to the three months he hadspent with Louise, and shook his head as if he could make. Was my mother-in-law really going to do this, undress for me. Maybe not. She moved away from my view. What seemed like 10 minutes but was really 10 seconds she was back. Blouse still on but completely unbuttoned. I knew it was going to happen when Stella starting unbuttoning the cuffs on her blouse while facing me. And I watched as she slipped her blouse off. Turn a page dickhead! How far was this going to go? Damn, Stella moved away from the door again. Was she having second thoughts about. " WHAT? You idiot! How is that going to make me better?" she asked. Her voice cracked slightly as she said that.I paused a few seconds, fascinated by the view of her body bulking up, gaining mass (from where?), and beginning to show muscles where none were before. Her jaw line squared up a little, her Adam's apple became visible, and her hairline receded a fraction of an inch while the length of her hair somehow became much shorter. Her breasts diminished at the same time her chest expanded,. For a while he hated her and what she’d done. He’d felt betrayed and abused. Only his love for his daughter kept him from just leaving. They tried counseling. They’d tried talking about it. He found out it hadn’t been her first affair. She’d had many starting the first year of their marriage. She needed the excitement, she’d said. Chad eventually gave up and filed for divorce. It’d been a messy divorce. Divorce with children is always messy, he guessed. But now it was over. Eighteen hundred a.