"With a round of smiles and handshakes everyone headed downstairs except Dad and I. I waited, knowing he would have thought long and hard about what h... would say to me when this time came."Son, your life has led you along paths no one before you has traveled, and to places no other man before you has been. I cannot compare our lives and offer you counsel based on what I know about life. The only counsel I can offer is based on what I know of you."Dad stopped then and hugged me. I hugged him. This whole thing has messed up my mind pretty bad."She left, a little wiser and a little sadder I think. She is a nice looking lady and any man would be lucky to have her... but I had an issue in that her sister was too close to home... so to speak. I had been married to her sister until all this crap happened. Now I wanted distance from my soon to be former wife.My life went fairly smoothly for a while after the shit settled down. It took four long months, but eventually the courts and the. There was another muffled squeak of pain but this time Andy stopped struggling. Blackbeard walked by less than a minute later. He was so close I was able to see his face. He didn't appear to be upset. He had taken a chance and lost. He still had Snow White to throw a leg over tonight. Good man! He wouldn't miss Andy at all.As soon as Blackbeard was safely in the house I went to work. I wanted Andy to realize that she was completely at my mercy. There wasn't anyone else in the back yard. The. Over the following couple of weeks, we chatted away and when I took a break and went outside for a cigarette, he would come with me. “Do you have a girlfriend” “No” “Boyfriend” “No mum says I can’t until I’ve done my exams”.This day I got to the library around 10:00am and Alan was there as usual, when dinner time came around, I noticed the library was empty, even the staff had gone for lunch. I stood up and rubbed his shoulders in passing, he looked up at me.“I’m going to the toilet I’ll wait.