Chapter Seventeen
Almost a Honeymoon
As August progressed the fearsome heat over the Northeast eased. Still the weather remained fair, with gloriously sunny days followed by clear, mild nights. Bunkered with his mate in their now shared redoubt, Ed treasured every second.
Defined by his goddess’ tenancy, this place was heaven as well – if of a different sort to Carrie’s sybaritic paradise. Indeed after all that deranging decadence the simple middle class comforts amid familiar surroundings were a reassuring dose of reality. Comforting too was the continual proof that his spiritual subsumption was far more than merely a product of those intense times and seductive environs. Secluded on his modest property his symbiosis with that blonde goddess only accelerated. The soaring ascension of
