" I believe you, but I can't do anything." Fine but I didn't sleep with Miss Alison Harvel," Harold tells him."Besides she is 24." Well she is a stude...nt and there are the pictures." I told you before it's not what it looks like. It's amisunderstanding," Harold said defeated."Stop thinking of it as a punishment and I am certain the investigationwill prove your innocence." Okay Jim I'll take the holidays," he said as he stood up and goes forthe door."Why don't you go to somewhere sunny it seems. “Hello Alice,” I said since I saw her name on the screen.“Are you and Hondo awake?” she asked.“We are basking in the sun while sitting on the deck,” I said.“Good, I have been to Walmart already this morning, and have a present for Hondo,” she said.“I bought him a twenty pound bag of dog treats yesterday,” I said.“Good, but this isn’t dog treats. Just wait. I’m in the car and headed over now,” she said.Alice pulled down the farm road with the hatchback door open. She parked near the deck. I went. ” And yet, she could not look away. It was obsidian black, battle-tested, ready for more.Ken lingered, neither pressing forward nor retreating. Mrs. Thomas, the bewitching and intoxicating sexual savant to whom he owed so much, had taught him that with patience, reluctance transformed to curiosity, and curiosity bred lust. She had introduced him to the art of seduction, and in the years since, he had become a virtuoso of the art form.Ken held firmly to the back of Aylar’s legs, keeping her. I need you like you would never believe, and I have some things we need to talk about while we have the time.”“Wendy, you’re just as sexy and beautiful as you were down in Jackson when we fucked all over that hotel.”“OH GOD - Josey - I think back on that and laugh to myself. That was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. I want you to know, I am pregnant and I love you more than you’ll ever know for giving me a baby. I’m thirty-seven and I had just about given up on having kids.”“If you’re.