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“Any regrets?”

“None. Leaving the Lebeaus behind to wallow in their misery and marrying you was the best decision I ever made.”

I get out of the car and go around to open Gussy’s door. “Be careful.”

“I’ve navigated this walk from the car to the house a million times. I could do it with my eyes closed.”

As dark as it is out here tonight, it wouldn’t look much different if she did close her eyes.

I reach for her in the darkness. “Come here, my love.”

She wraps her arms around my shoulders and we hold each other close.

“It’s our first night as empty nesters,” she says.

Twenty-eight years of marriage and twenty-seven years of having kids in the house. “We didn’t get a lot of time to ourselves before the little ones starting coming. Whatever shall we do now that we don’t have ears and eyes all over the house?”

She giggles like a young girl. “We’ll do anything we want.”

I like that idea. “Starting now.”

I place my hands on Gussy’s hips, guiding her to walk backwards. I lift her to sit on the hood of the car and her dress pulls taut over her thighs.

“Frank… what are you doing?”

“We’ve been married twenty-eight years, and we have four children. I’m pretty sure you can figure out what I’m doing.”

My hands glide up her outer thighs, pushing her dress up after it becomes taut across her legs. She parts her knees wide to make room for me between them and the bottom of her dress gathers at the hips.

Gussy grips the lapels of my tuxedo jacket and pulls me closer, her face no more than an inch away from mine. “No one’s around to see or hear us. Don’t you dare hold back.”

“You better hold on, girl.”

Chapter25

Caroline Beaumont

Pascagoula,Mississippi

Present Day

Dawsey isall smiles this morning.

“You look pleased this morning. Is that because you dreamed about Frank and Augustina last night?”

“Man, did I!”

Must have been something juicy. That’s usually the case with Frank and Augustina. “Well, go on and tell me about it.”

“They weren’t young. They must have been in their late forties because the kids were grown and out of the house, but listen to this… they just had super-hot sex on the hood of a car that was as big as a whale.”

“Automobiles were bigger and sturdier then. You didn’t have to worry about the hood caving in if you wanted to have a little bow chicka wow wow on it.”

“It sounds like you know quite a bit about having sex on the hood of a car.”

“Let’s put it this way. It might have been their first time on the hood of a car, but it wasn’t their last.”

“So you’re telling me they get freaky after those kids are out of the house?”

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