Barb, like so many girls he visited with, turned out to be quite a bit prettier than she saw herself in her own mind."This drink is for you," Seth sai...d, placing an appletini, her favorite drink, on the table in front of her."No thank you," she said."Excuse me?" Seth asked.Barb pushed the drink towards him and said, "I appreciate the offer, but I really can't accept drinks from a stranger. I don't know what you might have put into it."Barb smiled nervously as Seth just looked calmly at her."If I. Though her initial position was entry level, she had worked hard, and little by little, proved she had what it took to run a major campaign. When Tom told her she would be heading up the new Nature Spring ad campaign, she was shocked and ecstatic. She knew it would mean long hours and a ton of work, but the payoff would be well worth it. She and her team of five had spent many nights at the office until the wee hours of the morning. And now, where was she left? What was the point of it all-it. Please Don,t be too sad, My Love. We had some great times and Sex together?” she asked. “And we,ll have lots more when you get better.” I lied to her. “No Joe. I,m too busted up,inside! But we,ll meet again in the next life I,m sure of it!” “Don,tbtalk likevthat Dear Mary!” Tears we’re falling from my sad eyes. “Dear Lovely Joe. I love you so much and I,d have lost Vee to spend a life with you, but it,s not meant to happen now. Please hold me and kiss me My Darling?” So with bothnof us in. I knew she was headstrong and that she would go to great lengths to prove a point or win an argument, but to go as far as she had? I guess I didn't know her as well as I thought. I looked over at Sylvia and found her grinning at me; "There's more" she said, "But you don't get it until after we conclude our arrangement."This was going to be the first time I had cheated on Leslie and I would have thought that it would have caused me greater inner turmoil than it was. Maybe her fucking Tony was.