Chapter Thirteen
Gilly & Stella
As Stella finished a part of her story describing her husband’s fall, Gilly acknowledged to herself that hearing it — even if she had been none too willing to listen in the beginning — had perked her up a little.
What they were doing here wasn’t, as anything involving the thoughts, emotions and reactions of a living being weren’t, a precise science after all. Okay, so it was taking longer for “Robbie” to capitulate than both she and Stella had anticipated. So what? When he finally did just that — and the prospect of him not doing so was too much for her raised anticipation of what she had in wait for him — it would just make his grudging submission to her all the sweeter.
“…That very night,” Stella was still talking, “after I’d had my coarse and macho hu
