”“We can’t do that all at once you know?”“I am willing to spend all the time it takes to get there.” She replies.I take her hand and guide...her to our living room couch. We sit down and I start to kiss her lips. I open my lips and push my tongue toward hers. She pulls back but then opens up to allow my tongue to twirl around hers. As I pull my tongue out hers follows doing the same to me as I did to her. She seems to like it and her breathing starts to get heavier and rapid. I slow things down. John has already called this morning to remind me. I grabbed the phone and called Jenny's number, hoping for a message that she had left town or something."Hello?" Jenny answered. She sounded like an old lady. I know she is 63, but she sounded like 103. Her voice was lifeless, like it almost took too much effort to talk."Hi Jenny, it's me." William?" She seemed very surprised. "I didn't expect you to call me after the last time we saw each other." (I had been very rough on her at the attorney's. " Jason went to the bedroom, undressed, and got in the bed. Minutes later he was sleeping like a baby. I waited to hear his light snoring, just to be sure, and then I acted. The first thing I did was to quickly shackle his hand to the bedpost. He was half awake by the time I got to the second hand. "What the fuck..." "Just play along my love. Close your eyes, your surprise is not quite ready." "Okay, Alexis, but this is a little weird. Whatever you're up to, let's get on with it." He. “She died eighteen months ago.”“Oh, Chris, I’m sorry. I had no idea.”He smiled sadly. “No reason for you to have. She’d have loved it though. She was a contralto in the City Choir.”Grace touched his shoulder and moved on. Jeff Hardcastle was impressed.That interlude caused Grace to think when she returned to her office. The invitation assumed that she would still be singing with the choir. She needed to talk to Terry and Stephen about that.She went back to work on her proposal. Really the only.