Dina's parents had thought this was terribly cute, even if Dina had doubts about it being really appropriate behavior for a man who was less than ten ...ears older than she was.They all got along fine for the first few months. Her mother had found work as a receptionist in an office downtown, but the pay wasn't much and the hours meant that Dina and Greg were at home together for several hours each day and much of the weekend.It had only been in recent weeks that the trouble had started. It. I didn't want people to talk bad about Natalie, so I tried to go down to their place only when Tom was home and to leave when he climbed into his tractor-trailer and hit the road. But Tom was a cross-country driver, and sometimes he was gone for most of a week, and it was hard to keep going down there and not going in just because the truck wasn't there. Besides, Natalie said she got lonely when Tom was on the road all the time and enjoyed my visits. And we never did anything but talk or play. I’d had a good bit of high-end liquor at this point, so…. We sat at a little table off to the side, out of the line of sight of anyone coming into the bar. He had turned off the bar lights, so most likely anyone who came in would leave and not walk through and outback. At some point he scooted his chair around by mine so we were side by side, our legs touching. I was so damn nervous, even drunk, but he was really sweet and kept telling me funny stories about his family and their vineyard in. I checked the room we shared, then sent Mikah into the room before me. I closed the door, then knocked on the door to the adjoining room.Lottie the bartender opened the door. “Good morning. While I was waking my son Jarrett this morning I made some coffee at home. I brought some back with me. Would you like a cup,” she asked.“No thanks, I’ve had too much coffee already. I have to switch to milk, but thanks for reminding me I didn’t pick up any,” I said. “Is Janet still sleeping?”“She is in the.