She had to be honest with him. ‘My ex cheated on me,’ she said quietly. ‘I caught him in bed with my sister — so I left.’ She tensed up exp...cting the familiar pain to shoot through her midsection, but to her surprise she found it didn’t hurt quite so much any more. It was like looking at a sepia tinted photo — it felt less real somehow. Rob winced at the confession. He could barely imagine the agony of betrayal and hurt she must have suffered. ‘I’m so sorry,’ he said sincerely. ‘That’s a. Me: Fine, I’ll sleep here tonight. We can talk till you sleep, and we can catch up after a week when my shift gets normal.I was lying next to Ali to make a move on Aaesha. So even if she sees another person sleeping, she’ll think it’s me and let me play with her a bit more. We switched off the lights and were talking for some time. I felt Ali has already slept. I Shook him to confirm and found him in a deep sleep.Now I slowly went near Aaesha and lifted her blanket. I went and lay behind her. “Keep it, we had a blast and you provided the means. We may want to do that again over the next few days.”Putting the money in his coat pocket, he said, “Very good, Mr. Lockhart.”As we walked to the elevators, I said to myself, ‘Yes, it was!’Once the elevator door closed, she asked, “Now what ... something to eat, or some engaged-to-be-married sex?”“I’m in the mood for some of both,” I responded seeing her face brighten up. “There are a few things we haven’t done yet!”First, up to our room,. Of all the boys, it was Franklin that best expressed their feelings. "Who gives a fuck who has the earliest ripe tomato?" This of course was in response to his father's zealous interest in early tomato bragging rights. It was Franklin's belief that his mother should be given all that time and attention.The boys’ judgment of their fathers was swift and without mercy: their fathers were brain-dead from the waist down. One look at their mothers and they concluded the bedroom should be the busiest.