Chapter 193

“Anita intends to move to Maine. I don’t know how much longer she’ll be here.”

“Does that mean you’ll never be returning to Wisconsin?” Gretchen asked me.

“I still have friends,” I squeezed her hand, “ and family here. I’ll be back, but it might not be as often.”

“Make love to me, Jess.”

“Of course,” I said, taking her hand. “We can go now.”

She followed me up to my room. We didn’t come down for a couple hours. When we got hungry, I suppose. Our babies still needed to be fed.

Quinn pulled Gretchen aside when we walked into the kitchen, and had a whispered conversation with her for five minutes. Then Gerhard got pulled into the conversation, and it went for another ten. Gretchen looked so fucking happy, I wondered what the fuck they were talking about. When it broke up, Gretchen hugged and kissed both of them. Wow. I wasn’t that surprised she hugged Gerhard, but I would have thought she’d rather shoot Quinn than kiss him, if for no other reason tha