With age comes wisdom." Bax winced. "And sore knees."Brody could only nod in agreement on that point. Despite everyone's elation over the win, more th...an one Capital was nursing a few bruises. As always, defensive play picked up in the playoffs and Brody felt like he'd blocked more shots in the last few games than he had in the last month of the regular season. It'd be worth it to advance in the playoffs.Bax closed his eyes again and Brody relaxed into his seat as he stared out the window. There. I marinated Rick's steak but I didn't light the grill. I'd learned early on in our marriage that some things were just the man's job. Any idiot could throw some charcoal briquettes in the grill, sprinkle them with lighter fluid and then throw in a match, but Rick made it seem like it was rocket science.Besides, if he wanted to singe off his eyebrows, more power to him. I guess it was one of those differences between the sexes things. Some things men just loved and loved doing that made. In her own way she did love him and felt uneasy when she was not with him. She would have been extremely jealous and hurt had she seen him with another woman. However, that affection was not the same as romantic love, which was why she wanted him to hold her but would have been nervous about him trying to kiss her. By the end of their second week together she felt that she and Mike belonged to each other, and yet she still would have felt uncomfortable defining her role in his life as his. Crawling forward to where the leash dangled she paused as it was attached to her collar, then obeyed the curt command, "heel," she crawled on hands and knees, quickly, so as to keep pace and obey the command. Girl stopped when the leash tugged hard at her collar. Besides her a stout metal pole rose some three feet from the floor, the leash's looped leather end was dropped over the pole, tethering her. On three sides of the square rug there were large sofa's, upon each sat four Masters, the next.