Chapter 75

The next day was sublime. After another nice sexual interlude, and tasty breakfast, we had a wonderful time at Butchart, strolling around the gardens, holding hands. I paid the drivers way in so he didn't have to sit around his car waiting for us. The weather was mild, the gardens beautiful, even without the normal profusion of flowers. There were enough varieties of vegetation to be an attraction year round. We ate there, then the driver took us to the shopping district. I paid him off there, since we were only a few blocks from the Empress.

We eventually found a nice jewelry store, where I found Jeri a matching diamond bracelet and necklace.

"I like the unmarried you more than the married you," she said, admiring her new necklace in the mirror.

"I feel better about the unmarried me too. I don't feel like such a heel. You're with me because you want to be, and don't care that I fuck other people, or even if you fuck other people,