Susan was on her knees, tears streaming down her porcelain cheeks as she begged and pleaded through piteous sobs. Implacable as granite, I deigned to sneer down on her and then I turned my back on her to stare out my window.  “Oh, Des, I have been such a fool! Please take me back!” she sniffled. “Look, I really mean it! I know I have been a complete bitch and I need to make it up to you! What can I do? Tell me. Please?” h...

The ballroom lights were dim, and the band was playing something slow, seductive, and sexy. Chantal and I along with the other hundred or so wedding guests swayed in a lazy drift around the ballroom. Everybody else might have been dancing, but we neither knew nor cared. Our universe was our two bodies, lost in each other, cocooned together, moving as one in a slow, sensual drift, ignorant of and oblivious to the rest of t...