There were too many people aroundand we have barely met. I laughed quietly and moved my head back a few inches,but took her hand in mine. She didn't p...ull it back. You win some and you losesome. I used my fingers to slowly caress hers, feeling her silver rings andlong, black fingernails. In spite of her supposed shame she didn't make a gestureto move away from me, she accepted me. And when I used my other hand to gentlylift her skirt up and start touching her behind her back, she closed her. Beth scooted toward me in the bed, I slid toward her until we were pressed together. I put my left arm under her pillow to get it out of the way.Beth spoke "You make me feel so safe and comfortable when we are like this, I would like to express my gratitude to you".Her right arm and hand had been laying across my chest. She moved her hand down and felt for the fly in my boxer shorts. I had an erection under there and the opening was easy for her to find.She wormed her soft hand in and placed it. "Jordan finished his drink then went and put the bucket out of the way. He made sure the taps were off, and then went over and lay down on his back, put his head under the sink, and set about trying to find the leak and fix it.Meg stood by Jordan to see if she could help, and watched him as he worked, once or twice resting her eyes on his bulging crotch."It's so good of you to help me out like this," she said. "I hadn't got a clue what to do."After a while Jordan said, "Try that now Meg, run a. Suddenly we knew why he had been “too far away” to come home on a number of holidays in the past.Mom was devastated, of course, by both his death and the knowledge that came with it. A side effect of his criminal behavior was that he had married the other woman first, which meant she had legal claim to being his wife, his life insurance, everything. She saw my mother as being the home-wrecker in the story, even though Mom didn’t know about any of it. She probably thought of Cathy and me as.