‘I need a shower.’ I watched him make his way up the stairs and felt a terrible despair. Rummaging through the freezer I pulled out a pizza and sw...tched the oven on. I didn’t have any appetite but I made a salad and opened a bottle of red wine to go with dinner. I could hear the shower going and the sound of Daniel moving about, and then silence. Wanting more than anything for him to take me in his arms and reassure me, I climbed the stairs to see him lying on the bed, a towel wrapped around. My family told me that my spoken vocabulary has drifted to that of a child’s. I hadn’t noticed and had to ask what they meant. They said I use a lot fewer multi-syllable words. Once, I thought about it I saw their point. Small words are easier for me to pronounce. The CBD doesn’t erase the Aphasia completely. It eases a lot of the smaller episodes but it doesn’t fix the disorder. So I guess I started taking the easy way out. Usually, a small word will work. “Fuck,” works I have noticed I say it. She gasped andmoved her hand slowly up over my erection as she slowlyinhaled. When she reached the base of it she squeezed itgently and moaned, "Oh Gene, that feels so wonderful... "I tensed a little to make it jerk and swell in her hand andshe jumped a little and giggled like a school girl. "Oh! Itfeels like it is alive!"She turned her face up to me, "Take your clothes off,darling. I want to feel your warm bare skin against mine."I laid her down on the bed and stood up. Looking down at herin. ‘What the fuck were you doing to him?’ Lucy asked angrily. ‘He tried to bit me!’ Clara replied, ‘I was teaching him a lesson.’ Lucy put her hands on her hips and sucked her teeth. ‘You know how dangerous he is, why go near him?’ Clara didn’t reply, but looked suitably chastened. Riddick listened to them as they argued back and forth. Neither of them said anything about where they were or why he’d been captured, and Riddick was in no fit state to ask. All he wanted to do was shiv them, but he.