Shit of course! Jennifer Rose suggested the legal separation up front, didn’t she?”I nodded slightly in reply.“Yeah, you’ve got yourself a goo...d’n there mate. Now I got most of your stuff on file, we’ll leave the ... iffy stuff out of the equation for the time being. It would take a good forensic accountant to find any of it anyway. Now you said you were off on your travels again didn’t you?“Yeah, next weekend, for another week or so!” I replied.“Well you get Jenny Rose to draw up power of. "What happened to you? Are you all right? Your-- you have a cut," she said dumbly, shaking her head almost immediately after the words left her lips. "Not that that's obvious or anything," she sighed. Giles looked confused for a moment, then lifted his hand to his temple and winced at the memory, though actually touching it didn't hurt him at all. Shaking his head, he offered a smile to shrug the concern away. "It's fine. Ha, it's just been quite a, ah, long trip. Please, ah, d-do come in," he. But my body, cooled by the air conditioning, was enough to revive Tess as soon as I touched her. "Ummmm," she said.She turned onto her back.I thought she was still asleep and just changing positions, but I stayed close and re-draped my right arm, chastely, below her breasts and across her body."Ummmm," Tess said again.I didn't say -- or do -- anything. I was prepared to resume our mutual slumber.But Tess was no longer asleep. "I'm awake now," she said."Hi," I said, brilliantly."I'm ready now,". ”He continued smiling and replied, “Given your past, I guess that’s about all I could expect for now, and we’ll take it real slow. Let’s get ourselves some drinks and sit on the couch to discuss things further.”Phil put diet cola and a double shot of whiskey in my glass and fixed the same for himself. We sat on the couch talking about the process I’d use to list his homes and gain access for the photo shoots. After about twenty minutes I was feeling the calming effects of my drink.He could tell.