I’m such a fool, David. I ask you to do something that is very important to me and then I go and sleep with someone else. I would understand if you ...never wanted to see me again,” Ronda tells me. I pull her in tighter and kiss her.“Darling, I love you. However, since there is a question about that guy and you create a baby, I’m not going to sleep with you until you find out for sure that you two didn’t make a baby. I hope you understand how I have come to this position,” I tell her before I lean. “I’m really, really sure,” she replied, squeezing my fingers again.I smiled and raised her hand to my lips. I kissed her fingers, then her hand and her wrist as my other hand stroked her cheek. I drew a finger along the line of her jaw then across her lips, which opened to let her teeth nibble my fingertip.Releasing her hand, my arm snaked loosely around her neck and drew her towards me until our lips met.For the rest of my life, I will remember every second – every fraction of a second of that. .. she stood next to the fireplace and drummed her fingers in an agitated manner on the mantle. Quite by accident, she beat the particular pattern that caused the mantle to swing open ... nearly decapitating her."Ah ... Ed?..." she stuttered, "You should hang up and check this out."The inside of the mantle was hollow. There was what looked like a radio or a control panel with many switches and several operations booklets ... all in English and some very old. Whatever it was it was on. The. Michaels, we’re gonna get started and we’ll be back for the rest of it as soon as we can.”“Take your time Hoot, I’m in no hurry. I’ve still got the title to both of them and I’ll dig ‘em out before you leave.”The first thing they did when Hoot and his Dad got out to the barn was look under the tarp at the old Harley. It was in great shape, no rust and no parts missing, as near as they could tell.They uncovered it and moved the junk out from behind it, then rolled it back. The tires were low on.