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“I love h She loved her husband and she trusted hi poker once a week at Cat’s? The s to her She knew her husband too well to be jealous

“I love ,” Myrtle said crisply, “but I keep him chained up when the bitch across the street is in heat”

Vivi Ann couldn’t help laughing at that “Thanks for the heads-up, Myrtle I’ll keep a closer eye on my husband”

“You do that”

Still s, Vivi Ann left the barn and went up the hill to their cabin In the past year, Dallas had added on a big wraparound porch as well as about eight hundred square feet of space, which they’d turned into a new kitchen, nursery, and bathroo thethe way out onto the white porch

In the back bedrooed Noah’s diaper, put him into his dinosaur pj’s, and lay hiht, little pumpkin”

Out in the living roo beside her new sofa He stepped sideways and turned on the stereo His cheap black polyester cape caught on so and he pulled it free with a muttered curse

She smiled “You said you never dressed up for Halloween”

“I said there was no Hallohen I was a kid That’s different”

He came so close she could feel his breath on her cheek, sloved hand, let his finger trail down her exposed throat, down to the valley between her breasts

“Myrtle Michaelian says you’re being a very bad boy lately She saw you up to no good with Cat”

“The gossip never stops in Mayberry What did you tell her?”

“I told her I like bad boys”

He picked her up and carried her to their bed, kicking the door shut behind him “Trick or treat, Mrs Raintree?”

She laughed when he dropped her onto their bed Moonlight cah theirand illuminated half of his sharp face, turned half of his hair blue “I think I’ll take a treat, Mr Raintree If you’re up to it”