.That's fine." I hesitated, knowing what he would see with theillumination of his surroundings.The lights came on straight away after a moment. I was ...linded by thelight and was forced to squint against the offending rays.He took just a moment to overlook the room and a brief disappointmentcrossed his face which caused a brief and sudden twinge in my chest. Herecovered quickly however and his eyes were brought to the bright redenvelope at the foot of the bed."What's this?" he asked as he. ‘Oh nothing hun…’ Something told her to pretend to be still entranced. ‘I just want to get a pair of shoes, don’t want to burn my feet again.’ ‘Alright then, jus leave the front door open so I can talk to ya.’ ‘Okay.’ She answered and put on a robotic act answering his incessant questions with the shortest possible answers. She went into her parent’s first floor bedroom instead of her own, luckily her mom wore a shoe size only one size larger than Bethany and she found a pair of her mom’s. He wasoffered a full time professorship chair there. He could not wait tostart making his plans and also tell his wife the great news.Tim still loved his job, but not as much as he used to. His heart wasjust not it anymore. The higher up he went up in management, the morehe lost his passion for forecasting. He loved working with the numbersand with each promotion, he got to do so less. He had to do moresupervision, which he felt was just being a glorified babysitter. Hehad to go to more. Wow! Two years, what do you do for sex, I asked her. She said I have toys but I miss having sex. I asked her, did you tell him you want to get fucked? She said that every time she brings up sex he gets mad at her and yells and make her feel like crap. She looked at her phone and said oh it’s late, I have to cook dinner for my husband; we had talked for over three hours and she looked like she didn’t want to leave. I told her that we should do this again soon, I’m off during the day so it would.