The family bible, which usually took pride of place on the mantelpiece, was gone. It was priceless. Inscribed inside the front pages, it contained Jan...'s family tree back to the time of the King, and before.Jane's parents' bedroom door was open. Jane felt guilty, but she ventured a peek inside. She had never seen inside this room, it was strictly off limits.It looked absurdly normal, with a bed made, flowers in a vase, and no sign of either her mother, or her storied father.Jane began to feel. Jeff knew she was cheating.He had first become suspicious three weeks ago when the phone-calls started. If he answered, the caller would hang up. If Lensey answered, she would laugh and tell me it was her mother, or her sister, or some girlfriend's girlfriend from her high school days. Jeff knew it was a guy, probably some son-of-a-bitch he saw every day.There had been other signs. She lied about where she was going, and underestimated the length of time she would be away. She neglected little. "Just like that," she told me. "Keep going, all the way to my toes."My hands explored her flanks as I kissed my way down her chest. I licked the inside curves of her breasts with my tongue, moving to where her cleavage was covered by her bra. She squirmed with pleasure. I then kissed her stomach and moved down towards her legs. I began to caress her legs, feeling the firm muscle beneath the soft skin. Shifting positions, I kissed her feet and began moving upwards with my tongue. I carefully. For the first time in his nineteen years of life, Ralph was truly alone.That damned bunch of rocks hitting the earth had changed things so much. He looked out over the farmhouse. He was at his favorite vantage point, a few hundred feet up the side of a hill, behind the farmhouse.He was in a little grove his grandparents had planted, when they had first bought this place and the surrounding acres.Well, those acres had been eaten away over the years. Taxes were always increasing, and they'd had.