Chapter 299

Kelly let me do my bumps off her tits. She took full lines and then sat on my lap. We fondled and kissed lightly, but mostly we talked. In particular, she opened up to me about Kat.

"You’re seeing a wild child phase," Kelly said. "It was how she got before she moved back to Houston. The LA scene got too deeply in her blood. The whole Patrick situation, the drugs, the celebrity chasing. She was free, but she is always bound by her upbringing. She feels boxed in by this list of things she thinks she has to achieve, even if it’s not what she wants. And now, with you -- and, John, you are so good for her and so good with her -- she could throw the whole list out the window. She can just be content and happy. So she’s going to run and run and run to push the boundaries as far as she can."

"It’s her personality," I said. "And mine, to a certain extent. I get her."

"What you need, babe," Kelly said, "is an end game. Y