She kissed back, one hand on the back of his neck, and the other on his chest. The kiss lasted a long time. I could feel the stiffness return to my pa...ts, and could see it in Nick’s, too. When at last they came up for breath, Beth stood, took Nick by the hand, and headed for the stairs. Grabbing my drink, I followed.At the top of the stairs, Beth turned and kissed Nick again, this time with one hand on the back of his neck, and the other on the front of his trousers, working at his zipper. He. "That doesn't make it any better. But I guess I'm just going to have to learn to live with it. I promised I wouldn't get mad, and I won't. Just do me a favor. Stay in your own bunks tonight. I need some time to sort through my feelings, and knowing that you two are ... well ... having sex, would just make it that much more difficult." As long as it's just for tonight," replied Brit. "But you also promised you'd let us keep doing it." I know, dear, and I'm going to keep my promise. I'm just. ‘If your son was so sweet and loving and gentle, as y’all say, then why did he pull that knife on me?’ Jack wanted to ask. ‘Yeah, I was fucking his girlfriend but believe me, she wasn’t worth pulling a knife over, she damned sure wasn’t worth dying over.’ His lawyer had argued self-defense, but there were witnesses that claimed that Jack had stated he would kill Richard if Richard came anywhere near him. Again, his parole was denied. Chapter 4 Penny tried to sell the bar but no one wanted to. ”“And you agreed,” Mom continued. “On the same condition. That you’d get to do the same.”“That’s how it started.”“Yes. We touched each other. I was… very not myself, by then. Not thinking clearly. You were my son, my own child… but somehow that didn’t matter. It had been so long since I’d touched a young man’s… thing, so long since I’d even seen one. It just didn’t matter. I wanted to so bad. I started… saying things. Dirty things. You just smiled. Told me you thought I was pretty, that I was a.