It was when he finally let out his breath that the spell broke, and I was jolted back into reality that I realised that maybe I too should breathe. If... I was to die, I might as well die suffocating with her lips against mine, but this was neither the time nor the place for that. I broke the kiss, and we just sat there staring at each other for well over a minute. ‘Take me to that restaurant,’ I finally managed to say. Her face lit up like a Christmas tree. ‘Yes. Yes sir!’ ‘Sir?’ I said with an. In what felt like slow motion as he wasdescending the staircase he saw Lucius grab at Deborah and toss her againstthe wall, causing her head to bang a shelf. Deborah touched her head, sawthe blood starting to come out, then collapsed.Paul saw red. He saw his brother-in-law try to strike Deborah again causingPaul to jump on him, knocking him down and landing with the full weight ofboth men on his forearm causing it to snap under their combined weight in aloud crunch. Lucius screamed out in pain. She had to do something, anything, to break this ennui and a bit of gardening would do her some good. She went upstairs, put on a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and headed out into the July sunshine.At first she attacked the overgrown tangle of plants with all the pent up rage and frustration that had been boiling within her. She found a scythe in the shed and she used it mercilessly to slash away at the brambles, the overgrown buddleia, the knee high grass, the un-pruned roses and the tangle. I’d wondered why I had never met her boss who was a consultant type person so the office was private. I guess their screwing was early enough in the day that I would never notice by the time she was naked with me.She reached over and took my hand and looked at me steadily in the eye as she answered, “He has obtained a major consulting contract and needs my help on site. This is happened twice before. And yes, we share a hotel room.”After a silent interval she added, “I know this is something.