"Now that was encouraging. Well, hell, she was probably right. I'd got good enough and strong enough to fight off the bullies in high school, but some...ody with that kind of background, no way. And my job was a desk job, I wasn't out of shape exactly but neither was I in training by any stretch of the imagination.I did, however, have one above-average muscle, and it had been working in high gear—the one in my head. Brodine and his buddies hadn't been any help to me but they had said one thing. "Andrea nodded then returned to getting the evening meal prepared. She seemed to be back to normal again. I guess it was the shock of hearing that Barry was a multiple cheat.That night, Andrea was in the mood and wanted sex. I wasn't going to question why, I was just grateful that she did. She was a lot more active this time too. Lately she'd been pretty passive and frankly not very responsive. This was a most welcome change, more like the old days."That was great, Babe. We haven't gotten it on. With her good arm, and with his help, she managed to climb up his body and embrace him as they fell. The ground was coming up really fast.“Where are your wings?” he shouted into her ear.“Broken!” she cried back.He looked at her with sorrow in his eyes.“I love you!” he mouthed the words to her.She nodded. “I know.”The wind whipped water from her eyes. Was she crying, Jake wondered. He thought he knew. Then he had an idea. It was a desperately slim chance, but it could work!“Bite me!” he. "He was really out ... he had voided and it was a mess. The smell was him. There was a big claw footed tub upstairs ... biggest one he'd even seen ... big enough for two people. He could lay down in it and not hit his head or touch his feet to the ceramic coating on the 1/4 inch thick cast iron. Not that he'd been in it yet.The down stairs bath was one of those shower tubs ... cast iron ... circular with a brass ring for a shower curtain. The baths ... the two he knew about ... were additions.