I sat at the I-Hop slowly drank my coffee sitting in a booth and then meekly (after 2 hours) made my way out the door and wiggled the quarter mile acr...oss the parking lot up to mall entrance. I was freezing, and all I could do was wiggle one foot in front of the other, you really can't run in heels, until I got to the mail entrance. A man was standing inside the lobby and opened the door for me as I walked up."You must be shivering ma'am." he smiled and said.I grinned and in my Minnie mouse. ” She got up and rushed through the alcove.Tuesday and Wednesday were about the same without any new jealousy outbreaks from Misty. I did try to pay a little more attention to her though.Thursday was busy. The baseball team was going to travel all day Friday. That meant I had to gather assignments and make arrangements for someone else to turn in my work for Friday, or delay it until Monday. Profs just love sports guys,,,,, not. They hate to have to make constant exceptions to their class. ‘Hey, what are you complaining about? At least you have a comfortable seat and little more leg room!’ Sasha laughed and put his arm around me. ‘Maybe you can come back into steerage and throw me some crumbs.’ ‘No way! Everyone would fight over it. I wouldn’t want to cause a riot. I’m sure they’ll have hot gruel for you. Well, maybe lukewarm.’ ‘How about coming back so we can disappear into the lavatory together?’ ‘Have you seen how small those things are these days? And the filth? Besides,. I am of no further use to … Please Mr. Browne. I was an orphan, not that it matters much. I was bought, raised and trained when I was old enough to please a man. That and some skill at bookkeeping are all that I have — other than my certification as an accountant. But I never worked at it beyond keeping some shady internal books for the clan here. What I have in this is a chance to live a real life for once, being a man’s wife and the mother of his son. I have two birth certificates for him. On.