We can just lay around the house and not even have to get dressed. And you know, I’ve been thinking. Maybe you could just move in here with me. Woul...d you like that, Candy?"Candy smiled and said, "You mean it?" Mitch smiled back and said, "Of course, I mean it. But you will have to be a good boy." Candy got on his knees and started begging and said, "Yes, I promise to be a good boy and do ANYTHING you want." Well, you can start by getting ready for bed as I told you," Mitch said. Candy gave him. “No more apologies, okay? From either of us!”“I promise,” Béla said softly. “And I promise not to take my frustrations out on you, or any of my other sisters.”“Why would you be frustrated?” Elaine wanted to know, noticing a definite lightening of the mood between them. “Have you noticed that you’re covered with blood and you smell like a ... What’s that word you like? Oh, Skank? I’m the one who should be frustrated – I came in here hoping that you and Beth would still be going strong, and she. ’ ‘Gwen,’ she replied in kind and accepted his proffered hand. ‘And Cathy,’ she waved vaguely in the brunette’s direction. Over the course of the next ten minutes or so, Joe and Gwen chatted amiably. Devon had been right the ladies did go to State though both were in their first year at the College. Though, as Gwen had so succinctly pointed out, pretty much all the young adults their age went to State – it was the only real education option after high school. More interesting to Joe was that. ”“I guess it was.”“Did it upset you? I mean, was it humiliating?”“You’ve played this game before.”“What?”“There’s something about your attitude — I don’t mean that in a bad way — to me it sounds as if you know more than a submissive widow ought to.”“A submissive widow?”“You lived with a dominant man who, if I can believe Candice’s eavesdropping skills, used to employ some corporal punishment in the bedroom.”“She told you that?”“I gather she got some of the same. She wondered if you missed.