"A few minutes later, husband and wife sat at the small table and automatically held hands while Jeff said a short prayer of thanks for the food, then...included Jill.Diana, stunned as Jeff's emotions boiled across her as if from an overturned caldron, shakily released his hand and took a drink of her iced tea."I'm sorry," he said, looking at her with concern. "You felt it didn't you?" I don't know what it was, but I felt your emotions. It's like when we make love, only these weren't good. He'd been pretty nice so far and at least it would be over quickly. And he said if I did it he wouldn't call the cops or even report the accident. I just wanted to get home and curl up in my own bed and forget that any of this happened.I opened and closed my mouth a couple of times but my throat was really dry. I swallowed hard. "Don't do that," I heard myself saying. "Your room will be okay."The guy smiled. And just like that everything changed. I wasn't in control any more and he knew it. He. "A man was sick and tired of going to work everyday while his wife stayed home. He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed:"Dear Lord, I go to work everyday and put in eight long hours while my wife stays at home. I want her to know what I go through so please allow her body to switch with mine for a day."The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man his wish. The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman. He arose, cooked breakfast for his mate, awakened the kids, set. Kate Barrett, widow and mother, glanced suspiciously around, though there was no one in the rambling house except her and Matthew; she had a sudden feeling of guilt, of criminality, but she suppressed it in favor of something stronger... a savage curiosity that should have been bred from her blood thousands of years ago, but somehow returned like some genetic monster from the past. She edged closer still, only this time she spread her white womanly thighs apart in unmistakable offering--this.