No one thought it was odd because she was after all, my mother in law. We were the only family that each other had. Somehow neither, Amanda or anyone ...else noticed anything odd about Anna. I couldn't figure out a way to tell Amanda without sounding like I was the crazy one. After a few weeks she brought the subject up herself, at one of our lunches."Press, what happened to you and Anna?" asked Amanda, one day while we were having lunch. "She thinks you don't love her anymore." Maybe it was. Lee Roy Jones decided to walk away from everything and caught a freight train to Bartlesville, Oklahoma.Then he spent the next fifteen years of his life "fightin' an' fuckin' and just generally bein' a bad ass. He was skinny, wiry and filled with the nervous strength of a tightly coiled steel spring and knew no fear of any man. To the few people who gave him kindness he was a devoted friend. To the rest of the world he just said, "Fuck 'em."Because he had the reputation as a hard and tireless. “Well I can’t say I knew the old you other than our very brief introduction but I must say I like the new one. I can’t even begin to imagine what you went through, but to come out of it as you seem to have done, shows a strong character.”She laughed quietly. “As you can tell when I arrived, I’m not out of it yet, not by a long chalk.”It seemed an appropriate time to ask the question that had been bugging me. “Why me?”“That’s easy. As I said earlier you were one of the few that seemed to. We simply fucked each other, with gay abandon as we both enjoyed each other’s company enormously. As time went on, his visits became more and more frequent, until one day he said to me, “It’s all over between Caroline and me. I cannot go on. She realises something is wrong and wants a divorce. Listen, Sebastian, I hate to ask you this, but do you think that I could move in here with you temporarily, as I simply cannot go on living with Caroline?” Well, what could I say but yes, of course he.