“Let’s just say it’s all a bit messy otherwise.”“What is that anyway?” he asked, plucking gently at the string until she reprimanded him s...arply.“Don’t do that Rob. It’s to stop things happening, that’s all, just for a week, in fact another three days, so it won’t be long,” she told him.She finished with the lubrication, regretting as always the heavy painful curse of her periods and her need to lay off vaginal sex for the full term. She smiled at the steady ready figure of her young white. "I cried myself to sleep that night. I decided that starting the next day I would try to forget about the bastard and make a great life for me and the girls.It's hard to explain unless you've been through it. I loved this man with all my heart and he broke it; it was as though he stomped on it. People tried to get me to start dating and go out but I always refused. I didn't just want a man, I wanted my Rhett back and my life back the way it was before the cheating. He kept asking for second. All she does is to combine, and to untiringly practice, the skills of the athlete, the acrobat, the martial arts champion, the escape artist, the conjurer, the navigator, the pathfinder, the hunter, and the warrior. Plus those of the herbalist, the poisoner, the surgeon, the healer, the torturer, the spy, the courtesan, the linguist, the scribe, and the cryptologist, and a few others, which each messenger chooses for herself, according to her talents and her likings. And, of course, the skills. I should have told her about Kerri.Around 1600, I started making my way to Jones' house. It took over an hour to walk the two miles to the Navy housing complex outside the base. The sun was hanging low in the sky when I finally rang the doorbell on Jones' porch. I heard footsteps and the door opened.Terry stood there holding a sleepy Greg in his arms. He smiled and invited me in."Where's Cindy?" He asked."Long story, she's not coming tonight." Sorry to hear. Can I get you a beer?" You got.