"Obviously I can see that you did.I left and before I got to the restaurant the girls called and said thatthey needed to reschedule lunch for tomorrow.... So I thought I would justcome back here and get some things done around the house. It would appearthat I am going to have some help, too."Nick didn't know what to say. He went to start to take off his bra whenhis wife stopped him."What do you think you are doing young lady? I expect to see you witheverything you planned on wearing and after you. The former fit to a tee, mathematics is my game and numbers are like poetry to me, or were, revealing a symmetry and form, second only to Juliette's figure. I have no idea what Numbnuts was meant to be, or how it described my personality.Don, or Don Pellotti or, Don Giuseppe Pellotti, or, that Bastard, depending on who and in what context was referring to him, was, as I said, head of a small family that had its own independent business, the depth of which I never quite got to grips with. No one. ..if we even had a relationship that is.That's what I ended up thinking about after Henry left and Grandpa hadconfined me to my room until my parents got home. I could have probablyjust told him to screw off, changed, and taken off into the woods for awhile, but that wolf part of me acknowledged that an elder had given mean order and unless I wanted to challenge him for leadership in physicalcombat I had to back down. Since I didn't want to fight my owngrandfather, and I didn't think I could. As I lay there, I realized I had it bad. I was totally in love with thisman and had a pretty good idea he loved me, too. Beyond a couple of kisses, we had not really been intimate and Irealized I knew very little about him as well. I resolved to fix thatpart on this voyage and thought, "And as for the intimate part? We'lljust have to see."When I woke the next morning, I had a moment of anxiety. Was it possiblethat this whole experience was some kind of fantasy wish fulfillment?Was I dreaming.