All he could come up with was, ‘It’ll interfere with her classes. You know how my schedule is, Lyn. I can’t drag her around with me when she has...school all day.’ He breathed a sigh of relief at the valid argument, but the smile Lyn gave him made him wary. ‘Have you really been out of college that long, Aidan?’ The dumbfounded look he gave her was proof enough that he was confused. Lyn sighed and rolled her eyes skyward as if Aidan were a child to whom things had to be explained slowly and. She pulled thelacy sleeve of the heavy sodden dress down over the worst of her scars."Sod this," she thought to herself, and made a break for it, picking upher skirts and running as quick as she dared over the uneven cobblestowards the theatre district. She reached the end of the alley andstopped abruptly as she almost collided with a battered black carriage."Watch it!" she yelled at the driver, who didn't even turn in herdirection. "Someone could get killed."A gloved hand drew back a thick. Try to be at least a little subtle when you let that slip to her. You can’t miss. But if she’s really special to you, you might not want to give your cherry to a stranger in a motel room. It’s up to you, but an orgasm lasts about ten seconds. Having something special with a girl you really like is as good as it gets, and it lasts a whole lot longer.”Carol lit off into orgasm number two, loudly.“Just don’t expect other girls to be as hot as Carol. Sometimes I think she’s just one big clitoris.. Then I turned and smacked the crap out of him...Like his mother used to do.After reading his joke from his wife, he pointed to his cheek and laughed. He told us that's where she beat the crap out of him. He and Racene had a marriage like Brenda and I used to have. I often remembered the happy times.As we drank our beers, Matt Markly, one of our mine's head honchos came in. He was an alright guy and was pretty honest with us. He offered to buy the next round. Of course, we all accepted.He looked.