This might have been easier if I didn’t dislike Helen so much. But I doubt it. Up until I found myself actually doing it I couldn’t even imagine d...ing something so nasty. It isn’t that I don’t think a woman’s body can be beautiful or sexy. I look at women I see when I’m out or at the models whose pictures I see in magazines and appreciate their beauty. I just never imagined that I would ever have sex with another woman.I pursed my lips and gently touched them to Helen’s mound, just to the side. He's 40 now. We met in high school. We were in the same class, although he's almost a full year older than I am. We started dating in 9th grade. By our sophomore year, we were going steady. We were having sex by the time I turned sixteen. Got engaged right after graduation. Tommy stayed in town for about six months working at a mom and pop gas station before he enlisted in the Marines. On his first leave, right out of boot camp, we got married, I got pregnant, and he was shipped to Okinawa. . "Iguess it was that he didn't respect me for who I was." "How did he not respect you?" "By not understanding what I wanted," Claudia said. "And givingit to me freely. He just gave me what I wanted by coincidence; because he wasan asshole. He didn't do it because he loved me." Dr. Stuart raised his brow and blinked a couple times in succession, tryingto fathom if his patient could possibly be as twisted as she seemed. "Isee," he said at last, though it was something of a fib. "So thenwhat? How. There wasn't just a matter of getting some revenge; there was also the need for self preservation, a need to protect his rights, finances and other best interests in the divorce.The evening went by quickly, considering the images and thoughts that were flashing through Bill's mind. Just after nine o'clock he told Linda that he was feeling quite tired, and that maybe the fresh air and exercise in the afternoon had caught up to him.It seemed rather ironic that she was playing the mother hen part.