I came out of the shower and there he was, cuddled up on the bed with Beth."Um..." Oh, he's not staying. I'll put him back in his bed," she said, pick...ng up the fuzzy one and depositing him in the crate on the way in to take her shower. That's when the crying began. I got up and found His Honor trying to climb out of his temporary quarters, all the time complaining to his landlord about his accommodations."Hey, guy. I'm not the easy mark she is. That's your bed and you're staying there." He. “You naughty little tease!”“It’s probably why I became a stripper.”And now I was floored. “You’re a stripper?” I asked in disbelief.“Not anymore. You saw my condo, stripping paid that off in five years.”It occurred to me that I didn’t know what she did for a living. “So what do you do now?”“Well…” her hesitation had me worried, “I have a sugar daddy.”I’d heard the term before and had an idea of what it meant, but I wasn’t exactly sure.“What does that mean?”“It means there’s a man in my life who. ” I mumbled it of course, since no one could hear.Since I still didn’t have a TV set, ‭ I watched some old TV shows on Sunday night. I answered several calls from people returning my earlier calls. In all I hadn’t learned much.About‭ 9PM I heard a car in the gravel drive. I looked out to see Linda pull up beside my Accent. She didn’t have Megan, so that meant Megan was with Linda’s mother overnight. That happened often, or so I had heard.‎”Hello Ed,” she said as I opened the door.‎”Come in hon.. They had just finished dinner and were letting their food settle a bit when the telephone suddenly rang. Bella was laying with her head on Marks lap and she got up to answer the phone."McConnell residence," she said."Yes is Mark McConnell there, please?" the woman's voice replied."Just a moment," Bella said and covering the mouthpiece she said softly "Master it's for you. A woman."Not knowing what the conversation was about, Bella left the room and she went in to get the bed ready and give Mark.