Mom and Dad own eight fast food restaurants, their own brand, and are always busy with the stores. I worked in one store on weekends and during my sum...er break. I may have been the owner's daughter, but they made sure I worked as hard and maybe even harder than the regular employees. They taught me to be a responsible person and I am that to this day. They are now in the process of franchising their brand and based on the success of their existing stores, it will be a very lucrative franchise. As it happened, I'd also misunderstood the magnitude of my misunderstanding.Lily and her family were, like the vast majority of Hongkongese, Buddhists. Buddhism is not a religion in anything close to the strict sense of that word, in that there's no divine being who is prayed to, who created the World, will intervene on behalf of supplicants, will absolve or punish sins, etc. Instead of an externally judgmental "God On High", Buddhism is a "bottom up" path to self-improvement. Buddhists. The surrogate wife comment had become a bit of a tease by my husband. In the last few years Tom hadn't really had a steady girl so many times he would ask me for dating tips, help with clothes shopping, I had even done his laundry from time to time. This along with our little kissing thing and general flirting had my husband teasing that I was his surrogate wife. So occasionally he would make the comment however this time was a little different. He wasn't talking about me doing his laundy or. And how sexy It made me feel keeping my hold-ups and shoes on for sex. Over the next few weeks, I found myself starting to dress differently, more daring. I started wearing hold-ups all the time. Even for work. And our sex life went through the roof. My birthday was coming up soon. “Is there anything, in particular, you’d like?” Dave asked. “No, surprise me,” I replied. My birthday was a Saturday this year. He had arranged for us to go out with our friends Mark and Helen for dinner and a bit.