Still smiling, she left the house at the rear and wandered through thegarden, slowly gravitating toward the side of the house and the path downto the ...stables.There were no thoughts in her head specifically but she was drawn that waynonetheless. As she approached the stable building she saw Mavis coming upthe drive and Burt emerging to meet her. Harry seemed to have gone home.Ann ducked back out of sight and spied on the couple as they embraced andkissed one another deeply. She touched her lips. Then he was posted out west to protect the settlers from the American Indian Tribes. Eventually he regained the rank of Lt. Colonel but was addressed in both public and private as "General". He had caused the displeasure of General U.S. Grant just before the posting to the Indian troubles and an assignment to the Seventh Cavalry by testifying at a court martial of Grant's Secretary of War and General Grant's own brother as war profiteers and corrupt administrators. In a mean-spirited act of. " With this, she pointed to the back of the group.As they all turned, they beheld an extremely striking raven-haired lady standing next to the doorway. Her age was initially indeterminate to them. She could be anywhere from her early twenties to mid-forties, but she radiated a look of maturity and wisdom well beyond theirs. Her appearance, her carriage, and her clothing also radiated pure sex.The men in the audience were immediately jolted by her ice blue eyes, with a slight up-tilt at the. “I really missed you.”“You missed me, so you went and cheated on me? That’s a fucked up way of showing it!”“I know!” she whimpered, her eyes full of shame. “It was a mistake, Matt! I was drunk, and it was so long since you left, and it—” She stopped, shaking her head and picking at a chip of driftwood with her shoe.“And Brian was available?”“He was wanting to go out with me for so long, but I always told him I was with you. But that night I couldn’t keep him away. He kept giving me more beers,.