CHAPTER TWENTY Several nights after her blistering s*x experience with Alex, Ken stopped her in the hall after she was coming from an emergency surgery. "I haven't seen you much lately, honey," he began. "I've been a busy girl. I am a nurse, you know." "You've been doing a lot more than working at your job." "Meaning what?" "Meaning that you've been having quite a bit of s*x. I heard all about your affair with Eileen." "How did that get out?" she asked, her face becoming flustered. "You can't ever keep a secret around here. Eileen has gotten some guilt feelings about it. She told it to the psychiatrist, then started discussing it with me. She said that she was feeling real guilty. She wondered whether she was out of her mind or something. I assured her she wasn't. As a matter of

