But all of a sudden, whenever we parted she’d be checking with me when we could next be together. And our previous two or three nights a week togeth...r turned into five or six nights, with only my work sometimes keeping us apart. And most noticeable of all, whenever Sue talked about the future, it was always an ‘us’ and ‘we’ conversation, rather than an ‘I’ and ‘you’ conversation. As you can imagine, for a guy who’d come to New York questioning whether anyone would ever love him, I was on cloud. Then I fucking remember the damn collar on the grizzly bear. I begin to sit up but Masha holds me down and warns, "My Jack, I just brought you back from the dead, so please do not sit up too soon."I speculate, "Masha, something strange is going on here. First there shouldn't have been any grizzly bears in this area and second the damn bear had some sort of control collar. I can't help but feel we're still in danger."She says, "Jack, Todd is here and he will take care of any danger whether real. ”“A… promise?”“I told you if we ever met I’d rock your world,” she said smiling. “I just didn’t count on you returning the favor.”He looked at her curiously and said, “I don’t remember that.”“It’s okay. If you checked the transcripts, I’m sure you’ll find it. We did average two to three hours of chat a night, every night for a long time. I have no regrets. We have until Monday morning, then I must go back to being a good and faithful wife. The credit card that paid for this tryst will be paid. Could you open the curtains please? Where’s Mum?”As he opened the curtains I could see the sun coming through, I had to squint against it.“I sent her back to the hotel, she was exhausted. Is that too bright?”“No, it’s lovely.”“Morning.” A big West Indian nurse called Alice chirped as she walked in the room. “Good news, Dr Peters says we can stop using the PEG feed and you can start eating again, what do you fancy?”“Errr, just cereal I think.” I replied.“Ok, we’ve got most of them, any.