Chapter 138

When the two men walked back in, they both were nursing scratches and welts on their hands and faces. They were defensive wounds, but she was sure that Frank wanted to inflict at least one offense strike of his own to settle this quicker than it had been. If she didn't know them better, she would not give their marriage a chance in hell. However, she did know them, and she knew that their fighting was just foreplay, and the main event, was even more fun when they fought like cats and dogs beforehand.

The remainder of the evening was both fun and relaxing. Antonia antagonized Philip every chance she got, reminding him about how he smelled and looked on the day they found him on the veranda.

However, Celeste stole the evening with the story of Ann and Charlie. She went on for an hour telling the three of them about the goings-on about those two, in Ann's house. Charlie cooking, Ann's screaming from upstairs, her dropping her orange juice, the entire story of