"Now, the doctors will tell you more but you are expected to make a full recovery but it will take a while. The bullet missed your heart but nicked yo...r lung. You were bleeding internally. They had to cut you open to stop the bleeding. Jack, they almost lost you on the operating table!" She had tears pouring down her cheeks.I said, "It will be okay. Be patient with me."A nurse came in and saw my eyes. "You're awake. That's good. I'll tell the doctor and your female guards." She smiled gently. I had Katie and her mom Lori coming over in the afternoon, so I needed my rest.I stood and grabbed my plaid robe to cover my naked body then padded wearily to the front door as if it was the most arduous task in the world. What could be so important? The other issue was it HAD to be important because most people would have left by now. I knew it wasn't one of the girls I regularly had sex with because I gave them all copies of the key to my house."Just a minute!" I yelled.I got to the front,. Next time we get together watch how that affects Gae." Oh!"Gae had a week of nights, then another week of dogwatch, then another five days off. Her next shift after that would be two weeks straight of day shift.Gae discovered she disliked sleeping alone. Her current abode was a rental where the lease terminated in about a month. She began 'the hundred-question guessing game' until I grumped at her. Then she asked outright if Marilyn and she could move in here when her lease was up. The oddness. Mother probably had a good reason to be unfaithful to father, I told myself.As for her having this affair with father's brother nowadays, well it was only natural since she was no longer married, But why didn't he marry her if they felt so attracted toward one another?Now that I knew mother's secret - at least part of it - I felt a little sorry. Not for mother but for the fact that she had always gave us a false impression of being someone with well established rules of behavior while she was.