During sex, she had just been lying there motionless, not even caressing him, but now …. Todd began to think that maybe their rough patch was over....s they got home, Michelle pulled him towards their bedroom, still giggling and kissing him.As they fell backward onto their bed, she wrapped her arms around his neck and rubbed her nose against his.“Hmmmmm, I haven’t felt this good in a while.” She purred.Todd remembered the old joke about marriage, “If you’re horny, I’m happy”, and smiled.He and. He even began to watch porn, something he had hardly ever had an interest in. He browsed the dirty video channels in search of curvy brunettes who were having sex and seeing close-ups he imagined it was Louise’s pussy he was looking at.It didn’t stop there, though. It wasn’t just the obsession with her body and her sex; there was also this subtle but intense desire to be overpowered by her. He had spent many hours trying to understand this urge but to no avail. All he knew was that her. " Me neither," I said, laughing. "Except in the aftermath of gunplay." I can't believe you laugh about that, Dan," Alan said."Compensation mechanism, buddy," I said. "It's how I handle it. Cindy still has episodes when it gets to her. My only concern is her. I was a whole lot more motivated to protect her than I was in Iraq."Before he could comment, Alan's phone rang. He answered it. "Hey, baby!" Pause. "We'll be in there just as soon as we run the adoring women off." He broke into a grin.. What if the harvest fails? What if typhoid or something else breaks out? What if we lose the flock, what if the winter is too cold? We could ALL die, Julie. I'm afraid all the time too."Then she came to me, and we hugged fiercely. I stroked her hair. Under her breath, where only I could hear her, she said. "It'll be all right, be okay."I nodded and said. "Promise."That was all we had, promises and our love. In the end, isn't that all any of us have?...Late summer was distinguished by more of.