He had stayed for this long out of a misplaced sense of obligation because of promises made and joint debts incurred, but in practical terms the marri...age had really ended years ago and he realized those were excuses for not making the decisions he needed to make. He had known that marrying her was a mistake the very day they tied the knot, and had postponed the inevitable for too long. The person Debbie had turned out to be was nothing like the one he had been attracted to seven years earlier,. “No, he is at school,” Abigale softly replied.“I have something that he wanted me to show you,” Joey said, while reaching in his pocket and pulling out the little box. He then held it out and flipped open the lid. The beautiful blonde woman automatically looked at the Hypnotic Eye and instantly went into a deep trance.“Is anyone else in the house?” Joey asked.“No. Austin and my younger daughter, Jodi, are at school. My husband is at work, and my older daughter, Ashlee, is at her best friend’s.. "After a quiet moment, he felt the door handle move beneath his hand and stepped away. Tanya's tear-streaked face was visible through the slight opening. She gazed into Frank's eyes for another minute, then opened the door wider, silently inviting him in.Turning away and not looking back to see if he was following, Tanya walked to the massage table in the center of the room, then turned around and leaned against it, half sitting on it. Frank was right behind her and put his hands on her. Some of the ladies had chanced it anyway (one admitted to 38), and a couple more got canned who I reckoned from their profiles were maybe still too, uh, young at heart to settle down. That got the number down to twenty-eight.I next had to make an instant decision that I hadn’t anticipated – a whole lot of the ladies who’d replied were divorced or widows, rather than single. How would I take being compared to an ex? Did I want to take on a woman who already had kids? I reckoned not this first.