I scooted my chair in the opposite direction."Mr. Jennings, how do you feel about your wife now?" asked Dr. Martin."I can't stand the sight of her," I...snapped. "The thought of touching her makes my skin crawl. The day I came home and caught her, I must've taken 10 showers and just couldn't get myself clean. I threw away all of the furniture in the living room and burned it. Then I burned the mattresses on all of the beds in the house. I slept in my Mustang for two days until I got a new. "And I wanted you to be born before I got too old to have fun with you." I squeezed her close. "Aww." She kissed my neck softly. "You were a romantic at my age, Daddy. But you grew up in an unromantic time." She put her hand on my cheek. "It isn't any better now. We were born too late." She kissed my cheek. "You should have been one of those 18th century poets." She, like the girls of my youth, sometimes found my romantic side a little too much, but she always seemed to tolerate it, at times. And he didn't. Boys will be boys was the male philosopy in the noble clans of Rome. Even Augustus himself had sown his first seed into a whore when he was a teen then named Octavius. Certain girls were set aside only to service nobles in those houses down by the Tiber River. Thinking these thoughts, Penelope slowly fell to sleep in the heat and humidity of the city that night.Esther began thinking that Penelope indeed was Drusus, but in reincarnation. She had the mind of a man but the heart,. Mike blushed and admitted he had fantasized about it, but that he doubted Josh would ever be interested. I had to agree, as Josh had a masculine, alpha-male personality that seemed straight as an arrow.The summer before his junior year of high school, he ended up moving away and I assumed our paths would never cross again. Imagine my surprise a little over ten years later when Mike once again became our mutual connection. Josh moved back to Georgia with his wife and young son and had reached.