" Iretorted, "As of 2 hours ago that's no longer possible." He just starredat me with a puzzled look. All I could do was groan and close my eyes. Ikep...t silent the entire time he worked on me.Six months into our relationship Laura announces that she wants to have ababy. Everything was arranged to have in vivo fertilization using myfrozen sperm. This was Laura's plan from the very beginning. The halfyear wait was just to make sure we truly fell in love with each other andthat I was totally. When I returned to the kitchen, Teri and Sian were embracing. "I'm for bed," I said, and left them to it.Teri appeared not too much later; I'd barely finished in the bathroom and was in the process of stripping for bed. She, too, spent time in the bathroom and flicked the bedroom light out when she came back. She slid into bed and snuggled up behind me. "I need you," she whispered."I belong to you," I said, turning toward her. "Aren't you tired?" Not too tired. Talking to Sian reminded me of. " Ok. We have three sixty here, and seven fifty at H&S when we are operational. Add specials and that gives us roughly twelve hundred a week for a three-day workweek. The state allocation is fifteen hundred, but they are in backlog right now. MAB is looking at needing to do about two thousand a week to catch up with this year's allocation for the remainder of the quarter, and then have fifteen hundred a week on average through the fourth quarter. Including all holidays."Candy asked. "What about. ..” I said.“And?” he said.“And, I wondered if your son, Nathan, might be willing to take my case on a contingency basis,” I said. “I figure to sue the sonovabitch ex-brother of mine, he’s the other man in the picture, for alienation of affection.” My boss nodded gravely.“I see. Well, as for the time off, sure. How much time do you think you’ll be needing?” he said.“I figure a couple of weeks if that would be all right,” I said.“Okay, I can set that up for you. But as for Nathan, he doesn’t do.