‘Ah…I’m…ah…I’m fine,’ he replied. ‘Yeah,’ she whispered, ‘You sure are.’ Kim smiled at him, then started eating her cereal. Tomm... started to eat, too. He couldn’t figure his cousin out. Was she trying to let her mother know she’d been to bed with him? He was learning you can’t tell what people’s lives are like until you live with them for a while, that was for sure. Kim didn’t have to be to work until ten and went back to her room after she finished breakfast. That was something else Tommy. We were just playing, that's all. Here, can we give you a hand with those bags?" Susie covered up smoothly, scurrying forward and scooping a load of groceries from her aunt's unresisting arms."Thank you, Susan." Linda broke into a smile, her attractive face beaming. But the concern was still there as she reached up to touch Susie's forehead. "Are you sure you aren't both catching something? Your faces look so red and--" Oh, leave the girls alone and stop fussing over them!" Dave Harmon rounded. How are you holding up without me? I miss you too. OK. Love you. Bye.’ Benjamin crumpled up the paper with the phone number and put it in his back pocket. ‘Was that your girlfriend?’ ‘Actually, that was my wife. Why?’ ‘Forget about tonight,’ Benjamin told him. ‘I don’t fuck married guys.’ Patrick watched in shock as Benjamin walked away. Latter that night, Benjamin was at a leather club in the Village. A man in a chest harness and leather pants approached him. ‘Hi there, do you like tight ass?’. "He said you never have to apologize for the truth."Reed glared at me, then dad, who was watching silently, then Mom, then back at me."What are you going to do about him?" Reed demanded."I'm not even sure what he did," Mom said with a shrug."I might have known. At least we can see where he gets it. I demand..." his finger was practically in my Mom's nose.I knocked his arm away and stepped between them. "Feel free to say anything you want about me. But get in my mom's face again, and we'll find.