Often after her little sip of vodka she'd doze in the firelight.The door opened, Papa was home. She withdrew her hand from under her gown and sat up, ...van, the husky ambled toward the door.Yuri scratched the old dog between the ears then called out, “Solnyshko, my little sun,” he shouted. Yuri was a bear of a man, hardened by the Alaskan wilderness, the harsh life of a guide and trapper, he was soft only with Sasha, she was precious to him, his Solnyshko, his little sun. And she truly was a. ’ Andersen smiled callously at the old man’s servile ineptitude. She would sleep with him to further her career – that didn’t bother her. What did bother her was this high level minister didn’t have the balls to make a play for her. It was written all over his shaken, pasty face. How could such a spineless toad be expected to carry-out the responsibilities of his office when pitted against some very savvy customers if he couldn’t even make a play for a woman? Not good. Not good at all. She. I was looking forward to it.”“Wonderful! Then you do what feel right. And, Joe, Tim is usually in boxers in the morning and shorts during the day. So, the same, more, or less … it’s all up to you. We’ll see you two in the morning. We’ll have the patio door unlocked and the coffee pot primed. If you are up before us, just start the coffee.”Mom and I purposely had Helen snuggled next to Tim in the bed so we could be up earlier and let them sleep in the morning. And it worked as we planned. With. This was going to be our lives, and we both had years of bad relationship habits to overcome. We needed new ones. Just being open and ... assertive was going to be tough for me, but if I could do it with anyone it would be with Anna.In the weak light of dawn, I furiously scribbled my hopes, worries, desires and problems down on those pages. It was a full-bore brain dump. Once I'd gotten through the bulk of it, I made some coffee and started organizing it. It was pretty clear that some things we.