Ah, for the good old days.She was fine doing all kinds of other things rather than making love with me, and I hated that thought pattern. I guess it w...as old hat or something. But it irked me to no end. Oh, I still loved her endlessly, and everything else in our relationship was fine. But the lack of nookie really grated on me.For the longest time I held it in, argued with myself it would change. I'd tried cajoling, I'd bought sexy undies for her, I set up romantic weekend, I tried sweet talking. Jack had been once before to Britain, for a literary conference in London. On that occasion he ventured no further than the city limits, exploring the popular tourist hot-spots, Dickensian back-streets, museums and libraries, and a municipal building called Somerset House, where one can trace one’s family history. His grandfather had maintained that the American Durvills originated as French colonists in the 17th century. But Somerset House and The British Library had indicated to the contrary,. He still lives in her hometown. That’s why she went back there.’ Lois is dead silent. Jesse can’t even hear her breathing. He wants to look up, to see how she responds but he can’t bring himself to face her just yet. Once again, she’s the only person he’d confided in. All he’d told Eric was that he and Angel had already signed papers and his status in the Navy database needed to be changed from ‘Married’ to ‘Single’. Lois can’t believe what she just heard. A woman had actually left Jesse, her. Since he'd already moved the selected pictures to one of the USB drives, they immediately took it back out to the living room and woke up Sophia's laptop and inserted it there. Sophia's excitement level had increased again, at the prospect of getting to do some more poses.At that point, it kind of struck Sophia as rather funny, the idea of having to put on more clothes to pose in a bikini. She selected the third one she had that she hadn't used yet, just for a change of pace: a matching set of.