"Sure is, Lexs. Just shaving." Derek said. I walked into the bathroom and Derek was standing there with shaving cream on his face. Derek was shirtless... and wearing plaid boxers. I was almost speechless. "Are the kids still sleeping?" I asked, pretending not to be affected by his lack of clothing. "Yep. Jayden should be asleep for about two more hours and Darcy should sleep about two hours or more. They got to sleep pretty late last night." Derek explained. "Okay." I said, I didn't know what else. Frankie stood up purse in hand and asked him again ‘let me give you something for your time at least, you haven’t only repaired the pipe, you have also cleaned up for me’ ‘well there is something you could give me, but I am not sure you will’ he said with a grin on his face.‘Oh yes and what’s that then’ she grinned back. ‘Well, when I first walked in the last thing on my mind when I saw you all wet and bedraggled was the pipe I had come to repair’ he said. Frankie sat back down next to him. "Why haven't you called Daystar back?" Daystar?" Sven asked. The memory of their offer to that stuck-up cunt made its way into his alcohol-addled brain. "Oh, she passed on the deal." She passed," Gloria repeated. "Ashley Malibu passed on a deal to be a contract player for Daystar Studios? You really expect me to believe that?" She is a dumb bitch," Sven answered before he remembered who he was talking to.Gloria bit the inside of her lip."Give me her number," Gloria demanded. "I want to discuss. She'd always been able to entice the percolator to do its best. Since our divorce, my breakfast coffee had never been quite the same. I broiled the steaks, fried the eggs, fixed the potatoes and the toast. Nancy had a half-pound top sirloin steak. I needed a pound and a half.After we'd put that away, sitting at the kitchen nook next to the rain-splattered window, I brought out the champagne I'd had in the refrigerator. As I set out the two glasses and began unwrapping the tinfoil from the neck.