" Oh well. He'll get over it," I found myself saying and Scarlet took a deep breath."Yeah, hope so. I don't want to fight with him but he is making it...so hard for me." She shrugged and bit her lip. "There's a big gap in age, experience and all sorts, but he is great. I just wish he could be more relaxed and trusting. I mean, he spends all day with his farm girls and I don't get jealous."I laughed and she flashed me a smile. "I don't think he is going to run off with them though, do you?" No,". Heather closed the door andsaid, "What the hell was that about?" I wasn't in here. Could you explain?" Dave said as he tried to playdumb."She came in here and started hitting on me. She told me that I shouldditch my wife and get together with her. Then she wanted to merge thecompanies and then..." Oh, she's said that stuff to me before." Really," Heather replied with smile before shouting, "Why didn't youever tell me that?" I didn't want to concern you." You didn't want to concern me. I should. All I could do was hold onto my wife and hope. I couldnt think, the screams of the damned overwhelming my ears, driving into my brain like hot needles. I squeezed Mary tighter. I killed us all for love. I roared wordlessly, adding one more, terrified voice to the symphony of agony resounding through the fabric of reality. Mary trembled, her fear yelling in my ear, her arms wrapped like steel chains about my chest. The quaking lessened. Darkness fell upon us. I looked up, the sun was slowly. ‘They’re big as football players.’ ‘They are,’ she replied. Then it dawned on me where I had seen them before. Jeff Williams was fullback and Jay Mendoza was a corner back for the Lions and I had seen them several times on television. ‘They seemed pretty nice and you were kind of rude,’ I remarked. ‘I know,’ she admitted. ‘They kind of took me by surprise.’ We looked around for Jack and Kate but couldn’t see them anywhere among the strange faces heading toward the exits. ‘Let’s just meet them.