True, I'd considered it. I'd thought about it long and hard. Hell, I'd been long and hard on more than one occasion, and through the years, it was get...ing worse. I'd taken the time to finish school and started applying for jobs. I avoided my wife more and more because I was bored, I was unhappy, and I just didn't want what was going on anymore. I'd spent more time with my step-daughter and her friends, I'd hang out, socialize, go to the mall, and just have fun. I never crossed a line, although. Kayla enthusiastically said yes anytime. I looked at Alyssa and thought she was going to say no but instead she told me she did not want to drag me into a relationship that I did not want. I surprised her when I laughed and told her did not want it would be a dream come true that I had wanted her for years and having her beautiful teenaged daughter included was icing on the cake. She blushed as I reached for her and began another round of sex. The only problem I foresee is so much sex killing. “Claudia the Merciful,” whispered a voice deep in her mind; a voice so subtle that she could scarcely distinguish it from her own thoughts.“Indeed I am,” she answered almost unconsciously.She looked down and saw Carlo walking towards the stone stair dressed only in a towel. As this was his last day with her, she guessed that he wanted to go for an early swim then prepare for his flight to Palermo. Then she noticed that he carried a small basket and a long pair of tongs. Intrigued, she waited. Except for little Francine who, being only three months old, was probably too young to fully appreciate the beauties of her new location, far away from that bustling little village!Diana decided to go and revisit the clearing where she and her twelve silly friends had carried out that ritual six years ago. It was that piece of occultism that had brought her and Father Stephen together, and what a blessing meeting him had been. Far from being an idle rich girl with too much time on her hands,.