He was trying to be patient with her and kept apologizing for actions in the barn the first night of vacation.Poor Jimmy, she thought. He is blaming h...imself for something that he thinks he did, when I wish that it had been him. She knew that she had been uneasy, but she was worried as well as ashamed for she hadn't been feeling well and she lived in the fear that she was pregnant from that terrible night. Her attitude towards sex had changed radically and Jimmy wondered what had caused her. ”The sound of scooters broke the silence that had fallen over the men. Jerry looked over and saw the boys returning from the store with bags of groceries strapped onto the rear carrier. They pulled up in the front yard and came to a stop in front of the men.Abe said, “Mom’s expecting you over at the house for dinner now that we are back.”Jerry stood and locked the door of the house. Henry and he walked next door while the boys rode their scooters thirty feet to park them at the door. Abe held. All they did was give her pieces of a much larger puzzle. The pieces she had put together didn't tell her much and she had to guess at what many of them meant. So far she'd apparently been right, but she still wanted to know it all. She wanted to know once and for all just what had transpired between her and her husband and her and Jessie. She couldn't really be mad at Carl. After all, all he was trying to do was get what he felt was due him. She apparently hadn't made it easy for him so he'd. I rang the bell. A female voice said, "Come in. The door is open."Inside, the furniture was sparse like before. There was a stairway leading to upstairs bedrooms and the light came from the kitchen. Nicole was pouring two glasses of wine."You drink wine, right?I nodded yes."I like Chardonnay. Is that okay?" That's fine." All I could do was stare at Nicole. She was wearing the Duke sweatshirt I had given her. It was way too big on her diminutive body. The collar was so large it hung over her.