She dropped the keys and walked away. For the next couple of hours she made it a point to spend a lot of time with the two single guys in the group an... with the others while ignoring me. Lexi didn’t do anything wrong with either of the guys except she was supposed to be my date, not theirs. My day was spent playing in the river and hiking along the banks alone. I thought this looks like the end of a very brief romance. If she wants those guys, let her have them, I wasn’t going to run after her. .." cautioned his father."Bruce!" echoed his mother."Benny's sweet, I don't mind him," finished Mary Margaret."Well, it isn't Benny that's the problem." Hiram took a deep breath and let it out. "Jerry's still single and considered quiet a catch, at least by some of the women in this county. He's got all that land and no children." Hiram looked at his grown children around the table and finally at his wife, none of whom were going to help him finish the subject he had introduced and he was. Wendy walked through the door and was immediately mobbed by all the family with kisses and hugs. “How is Mom? When can we see her?” Diane frantically asked as the others gathered around to listen.As she spoke, they couldn’t help looking at her bikini-clad body. “She’s very sick. Karen was given a lot of pills and booze tonight and they’ve made her very sick.”“Mom doesn’t take drugs. She barely takes an Aspirin for a headache,” Brenda remarked.“I know that honey.”“Has Karen told any of you what. " But you were able to control yourself?" It was in public. At the zoo. And my wife putting her hand on me snapped me out of it." Okay. So without your wife's intervention you felt you would have hurt your son?" I won't say that it is unfathomable or even unlikely. But I don't want to hurt either of my kids. I don't want to hurt my wife," Ray admitted."Has there been a history of abuse?" she asked as she scribbled furiously into a pad."No, not for my family," Ray responded, squirming a little.