Plus, we both have to work in the morning.” Brian makes his way to her side of the bed and pulls her to him, crushing her against his body. She figh...ts him at first but soon she relaxes against him. “Can’t we wait until tomorrow?” She asks him. “We could do this again tomorrow.” “No,” he says firmly. “Because I am angry at you now and that needs to be addressed.” “Angry at me?” She questions him. “Yes,” he growls in her ear, biting lightly at her earlobe. “You embarrassed me tonight. You don’t. ”Penny pulled a face but her eyes were twinkling. “O-oh? Aren’t you going to take me on another of your nice walks?”“We’ll run out of them soon and you’ll have to cope with steep hills and fierce animals.”“What?”Peter nodded solemnly. “Sheep and cows, buzzards, kestrels...”Penny bit her lip and tried to look afraid. “Will you take a gun with you, just in case?”“No,” he said sorrowfully. “I couldn’t afford to renew the licence.”Penny snorted and then pealed with laughter. At last she said: “I’ll. Mommy will swallow all that you have to give her."He had gone out drinking with the boys again and, as usual, but for me and the c***dren, Patty was home alone and unable to reach him to tell him that I had arrived early to celebrate his birthday and was there taking the k**s trick or treating. Out of necessity, she had gotten a job at the deli slicing cold cuts for people who shouldn't be eating salty slabs of sliced meat. I was fortunate to have a job that I worked from home and it didn't. Suddenly Deepali looked at me and laughed, and said to Ritu, “See, he’s always checking himself out. This is routine every morning”. Ritu inquired, “Routine as in checking himself out after a bath?”. “Yeah, more than I check myself out”, Deepali replied and giggled. They both walked over to me, and Ritu says jokingly, “But well deserved ya. He works out and he’s proud. Really nice body, Gurmeet.” I was flattered but also weirdly embarrassed. “May I?”, asked Ritu placing her hand on my biceps.