” When he returned, he offered her a glass of wine. With a nervous smile, Candy reached out for the wine, and asked. “Are you going to get me drun... and screw me?” “No, Baby. I just want to help you to relax.” He then sat next to Candy and put his arm around her shoulder and hugged her close to him. With his free hand, he used the remote to shut the TV off and turn his stereo on. He already had some romantic music in his CD player. Candy smiled and, with shaky hands, started unbuttoning her. Jimmy's voice woke the baby and she started to cry. "Jimmy, you stop scaring Opal."Greta could not believe the change as Jimmy went from angry man to loving father. He scooped up the baby, growled back at the pups when they warned him with growls of their own. Then he began to make shushing noises.Both maids came running into the living room and stood between Jimmy and Ruby. "Don't you go hurtin' Miss Ruby," one told him.Jimmy looked at the pair in surprise. "Who the hell said anything about. But a gift is far from required. The firm pays us to manage this place. We email vouchers for the food that was here when you came. And the best part: we get to use the place when we don’t have guests here.”They insisted we keep the money. We waved as they drove away at 08:00. We locked the door and stripped. Only the master bedroom had been used. We collected the towels and bed linen and started the wash. The kitchen was spotless. Our cleanup was going to go quickly.As we ate lunch the towels. I caressed her back and soothed her because I knew she needed to get this off her chest. After what seemed like ages she calmed down then looked up at me and smiled weakly. ‘Look at me I’m a mess.’ ‘No you look beautiful and I’m sorry I don’t say that enough.’ She took my hand and led me to the couch. ‘I’m so sorry about earlier…’ ‘No, please, I’m the one who should be apologizing I shouldn’t have run’, I interrupted her. ‘Please let me finish, this is hard for me and I hope you don’t hate me.