. you said it yourself," she said. "I can't afford it, not without, you know, our deal." Forget the deal," I said. "Just stay for the winter. We'll ge...t payments going when business picks up in the summer." You're just letting me stay here? For free?" she asked incredulously. She shook her head. "Oh, I can't do that. I don't take charity. I've earned my keep everywhere I've gone." She was very serious. She didn't like what I was saying at all. What was with her? I thought she hated our. It even has a windmill with a big tank and the water is piped into the house. Why do you ask?" I'm going to look at it tomorrow. I've come to like Lancaster already and I might buy it," I said."You'd have plenty of room to rattle around in that big house. I've never seen anything else like it. It took over four hundred wagon loads of lumber just to put it up, and no telling how many of brick for the foundation," he said."Sounds like my kind of place."Mary came to get me then and Frank came with. A bad choice of words, cause in a minute or two I would have been. "Don't move, and don't put your friend away."Robbie shot out the door, leaving it open.There's something inherently awkward about standing in a girl's room, alone, with your dick hanging out. Add an open door and it was downright creepy.She was back in a minute and closed the door behind her. "He just wanted to know about tomorrow night," she explained as she sat down on the bed again. "Now where was I?"I answered by pointing my. I couldn't even imagine a story with this much suspense in it but this was real life and real people were affected. A good childhood friend was probably going to prison for murder. His wife, whom I have only known a few weeks, was living with me along with her daughters.I knew I wanted this woman but not by force and not because she felt she owed me something. I wanted her because of the person she seemed to be inside. A warm, beautiful, loving woman who had needs that I could fulfill. Yes, I.