Inside her head, she addressed her husband again: you see, Marshall, I've learned how to screw by balling our son. Oh yes; I've fucked him in every wa... possible, and what do you think of that?"Mom," Robbie said, sitting naked upon the side of the bed, "you look terrific, all sultry and kind of smooth. You also look thoughtful. Not worried about anything, are you?"Lauralee put one hand lightly upon her son's bare thigh. "Darling, you don't know exactly where your father is, do you?He glanced. In the tangle of trees behind her, sloping down a quarter of a mile to the sluggish river that separated the mansion from the town, the frogs took up their cacophony, so loud that she didn’t even hear the house’s front door open. WHAM!Ada nearly jumped out of her skin, barely stifling a shriek as the door banged shut and wriggling further back into the weeds as the apparently automatic porch light illuminated the yard. Ducking her head, she peered through a gap in the hedge and watched as the. The car won't start."She waited a few more seconds, and then growled as she clicked the end button on her phone. His cell went straight to voice mail when she called it a minute later. She left a message, and then tried the house again, with the same results."Damn it. Where the hell are you?" Jamie said in exasperation as she tossed her phone in the opposite seat. Despite knowing next to nothing about her car, she popped the hood and opened the door to go look anyway.Naturally, she didn't see. ." I fumbled.She smiled. "I love watching you sweat. I meant even when I was at mythinnest. I just couldn't." "I have to tell you. I couldn't either, not until Robin pushed me." Pushed you?" She told me that I wasn't the chubby girl anymore." Jess had a halfsmile. "She said that I earned it and that I needed to think that way.And I still had to be pushed and I didn't grow up with all that passiveaggressive shit women pull. The "you have a pretty face," crap. The"wear this, not that".