There were a few half empty glasses and a red bikini bottom laying on a deck chair, but no half drunk women as I expected. I toed at the red cloth wit... my wingtip and realized that it was made for a man and not for a woman. My blood started to boil.I stormed back through the house and listened quietly, back on the prowl, hoping to catch her in the act. My mind had already forgotten Brenda the bitch and I imagined my wife on her back with some young pool boy probing her insides. Just as I. " I observed."No. He says I remind him too much of what he's lost." What he's lost?" That's what he says. He's been fucking our next door neighbor's wife for a month now. Her husband was sent to Saudi nearly three month ago." Does he know that you know?" I don't think he cares. But yes, he knows. That's why he came yesterday. To tell me he filed for divorce." Oh, Lilly..." I stopped walking and gathered her into my arms and held her tight. She clung to me like a small child and cried.We stood. Barbara jumped to her feet, apologising and consoling our shocked neighbour, while not quite successfully holding back laughter.Bev was laughing out loud. Even Wendy was laughing. I turned, and took refuge back in our kitchen, leaving the sight of my beaten bottom for Carol to observe, if she had the desire to do so. I think the others might have enjoyed the view, if they had not been embarrassed by Carol's predicament.The kettle boiled, but I could not venture back outside. Carol, though. "The probe will expand the search parameters," Chief replied."Norm, tell me you have good news." I have good news, Waylon," Norm replied. "The construction crews have worked through most of Arman's punch list. The late start to the greenhouse will not negatively affect the schedule. The men should be ready to return to Tahiti by the first of the coming week." They'll be finished by then?" The greenhouse, as the foreman explained it to Arman, is simple construction. They claim it will be ready.