Ibby was still slumped in her chair. “Miss Koenig, if you do not cooperate we will have no alternative but to subject you to more punishment at a pr...vate ‘donors only’ event later this evening. It’s up to you!” Ibby was past caring. She remained in her chair. “Ok, you asked for it, Miss Koenig. You will be required to stay behind after the assembly. Miss Ward, please perform a striptease facing Mr. Rudolph!”Rebecca had not expected that her mother would be able to prevent her being stripped,. I guess that was the case with me and I am sorry it took this long.”Mike pulled her to him and gave Sally a very passionate kiss and then hugged her very tightly.“You have nothing to apologize for sweetheart. It is what it is and we will do better the next time we want to have a child. You do want another child, sometime, don’t you?”“Yes, yes, I do honey. But can we just enjoy this child before we plan for the second? This is going to be a long nine months for us.”“Certainly, and I am sorry I. After those two first tumultuous nights, we more or less forced ourselves to moderate the ‘fucking like bunnies’ thing. Part of that was because we still weren’t using protection. Valerie had been raised Catholic. She wasn’t a ‘practicing’ Catholic, but that didn’t mean some of what she’d been taught hadn’t stuck with her.It was, in fact, two months after we began making love before I asked her to marry me.She said, “Yes!” (which my brother warned me about) and I went a little bonkers. I always. ‘You always look good to me, lover,’ I said, not looking away from the screen. It was as close as we could come to having our first anniversary dinner together, and we both enjoyed it a lot. He watched as I took the cake topper from our wedding cake out of the freezer and took a delicate nibble. Then, he laughed uproariously as I hurried to spit it into a napkin. The freezer-burned taste was horrible, and the face I made was hilarious even to me. I was talking about maybe getting a puppy when.