‘You will regret your impertinence before the evening is over,’ said Harvey sternly and Sherry gave him the finger and again the audience laughed....Matt smiled because he intuited that Sherry was deliberately getting Harvey all riled up so that her eventual subjugation would be that much more humiliating. ‘Well Harvey , would you care to be the master of ceremonies tonight?’ inquired Roberts graciously and Sherry looked stunned. ‘Sir please don’t!’ pleaded Sherry to no avail as an eager Harvey. ”“Why don’t you get a shower and then get dressed and we can snuggle on the couch or something,” she saidI thought that my plan was better, but she was gone before I could restate my intentions. I sighed and went and got in the shower. As I was stood in the hot spray of the shower letting the heat relax my bad shoulder, the shower door opened, and my wife joined me. In the last twenty years, the number of times we have showered together has diminished greatly. It has been because either of us. I remembered the amber pill. Had she given it to me? Had Larry? Who was in on it? Paranoia wrenched my guts. It wasn’t only Larry. Shani had stuffed drugs in my mouth at that barbecue. I lost my time with Rena, with my first born son!I stopped. I wondered if there were complicit whores? Or were they just useful idiots for Amanda and her conspirators. Goddammit! I tried to take calming breaths. It wasn’t enough.“Oh my God!” Bethany gasped as I staggered and grabbed Minerva by the haft of the. Brad’s parents were up at the family lake house for the weekend. This was common for them when the warmer weather came. Brad always would stay behind, opting to instead to enjoy the solitude of the empty house. Scheming ways to somehow run into Ms. Blossom was a part of the incentive to stay home, too. An upscale neighborhood, she lived alone in a rather large house. A divorce a few years earlier had netted her the home. Her two kids, a few years behind Brad in school, lived across town with.