Then we decided to try for a child, and then the problems started to come. We could never get pregnant. We saw the specialists. My active sperm count ...as low. They had some suggestions, but Lorraine wanted to have her baby naturally. The marriage got stale. I was still in love with her, but I didn't show it much. Eventually she dropped a bomb on me. She said we were done. I took it hard. I begged her to stay with me. She refused. She said some nasty things. I was devastated. We had been. I remember gramps saying something about Mrs. Jean would be willing to find out for us. I lost interest at that point thinking they were wanting to send me to some kind of summer school. Summer came and off I went to the grandparents. After a few days with granny, off I went with gramps to "make the rounds." The second day we stopped by one or the regular "no toolbox houses." I was prepared to stay in the truck and be bored but granddad told me to follow him. We walked up to front door and. A pleasant shiver ran up her back as this dog was humping her hand, dripping precum all over it, making it slick and wet for himself.Nika's responsible side suddenly kicked in. She wasn't sure what she was doing, whether she should be letting him do this or stop him. Quietly she said "No, doggy, please don't. just leave me alone, go away doggy." but the dog was oblivious to her pleading and just kept humping away.She slowly, carefully, pulled her hand away from him, accompanying her movement. “And we have a property” Alexandra interjected. Dmitri and Grigori turned the bed around to sit facing the screen. Elena’s work was displayed before them. They were now the anonymous tenants of a deconsecrated convent - the only building in a Svitavian mountain valley, serviced periodically by agencies and leased in perpetuity through an offshore holding company. Alexandra stroked Dmitri’s hair and breathed into his ear.“I trust her. We should go to see it”. She was trembling. “There are four.