After the second one, with her bra still hidden by the silk of her garment, she twisted away from me, grabbed my hand and led me toward my own bedroom... The bed itself was neatly made, as usual. One of my also divorced friends had suggested to me that a woman was generally impressed when the man she was about to fuck was civilized enough to make his own bed. Ignoring any compliments that I had hoped for, Alison flopped down on the neat bed and dragged me with her.Her legs were wrapped around me. He got dressed and went into the kitchen. His wife would usually prepare eggs and toast for him, but that all stopped when the prison was built. She was feeding their young son, Sam, but as Tyler entered the kitchen, she spared a glance with her dead fish eyes.The right side of her face, she only ever showed him the right side. It was the side her face had been branded. F078, the 78th citizen of Dominion’s empire. The F stood for ‘family’, as in her relation to Tyler. Working for Dominion was. Would it present problems for you if we were to go to Ken’s next Saturday?”“No problem for me but the tongues are going to wag when they see me going out with the handsome PA.”“And you accuse me about giving you a line? Give me a break! Anyway, let those tongues waggle because it isn’t going to bother me.”He drove home having some pleasant thoughts about Erin. She was an interesting person who from what she said was an independent person and could take care of herself. He already was looking. ”“But Paul, the family?” Rory said.“Rory, the family will always be. Now that I think about it, maybe for me, right now, the O’Dell clan is me Opal Anne and Pauli. During the war the O’Dell clan was the three of us, but I have a wife that I love more than anything I could have ever imagined. Then Pauli came along, and I found someone I could love even more. This has nothing to do with loving you two any less.”My brothers stood there sniffling, and I finally couldn’t take it anymore and joined.