The best I could come up with was, “Jana and I had a slight disagreement about your welfare.”Danielle’s eyes narrowed. She crossed her arms unde...r her breasts and her lips pressed together into a thin line. She didn’t have to say a word for me to understand that I hadn’t told her enough.I shook my head. “It’s taken care of, really. Once she understood that I wasn’t just trying to take advantage of you, she calmed down.”“Taking advantage of me?!?” Her eyes widened and she looked past me.I reached. " Hello, Betsy," Lucy said amazed at the bright eyes looking up at her."Did you have a nice little run?" William asked. They were five or six miles from the house."Yes," Betsy said starting to fidget. Her movements were starting to make the horses nervous.Lucy looked down at Betsy and said, "You looked like Speedy Gonzales running here." I'm not a mouse," Betsy said with a grin. The smile turned feral before she added, "I'm a shark."A shiver went through Lucy as she remembered the sight of. This turned out to be a mixed blessing.Caroline and her mother cried and kept hugging me. My dad even got misty-eyed, but shook my hand and told me he was proud of me and to watch my ass.Arriving at Ft. Polk, we lined up in a rough formation and I got singled out almost immediately. I was escorted to the base barbershop by some corporal and given the standard head bone haircut. I was then taken to a barracks in the reception center and given a room to myself.[odd, to say the least] I just went. She also said I had to take ashare of the blame for encouraging him in the first place. I thinkwe both sensed that this was the turning point for us and from nowon, instead of just passively accepting Rachel’s affairs, I wouldbe openly encouraging her and, where possible, looking on as sheentertained her lovers. We were lucky as after an anxious couple of weeks we foundthat, despite all Ralph’s efforts, he had not managed to make Rachelpregnant. This should have taught us a lesson.