"Shelly peered closely at me until I smiled and then she smiled too. "You're not concerned at all are you? Well if you aren't, then I'm not either. I ...emember how you handled that man who was pestering me on the thruway."Elizabeth asked what that was all about. Shelly went into detail. My ex-wife could not believe what she was hearing about me. "John, you never let on about being trained to fight." I didn't train to fight. I learned how to protect myself and any other who needed protection. The. She entered the ballroom in a figure hugging pale pink satin dress, with slender straps leading to a plunging neckline in front and back and a small train. With her hair swept up the jewels around her neck sparkled along with the ones that adorned her ears and made her the main attraction. She smiled while mingling wit the guests though she really longed to go home and cry. That feeling expanded greatly as she saw a face in the crowd from her past. Those same bland hardened eyes met her from. It all stemmed from the girl he loved dumping him for his best friend almost ten years earlier. As a result of the trauma he suffered because he loved her so much he decided that he would fuck as many women as he could but he would never become emotionally involved.Even his holidays were geared to how many conquests he could achieve during the two or three week period and one year he envisioned taking his womanizing to a new level. He planned to tour 10 European countries over 30 days and the. "That may be the hottest thing I've ever seen," he said.I grinned at him. I could never get enough of that kind of praise. I sat up and took one of his hands in both of mine. Eager for more kind words, I waited to see what he would say next."How about a date? I know that sounds odd, now; but we haven't really had one yet."He surprised me. My answer sounded like I had reverted to being nine years old again, "Oh, wow! Sure! When?" Friday? Are you free then?"Just in time, I kept myself from.