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wasn’t going into that with them.   “He’s not a cheater,” was all she’d say.
    “Ha!”
Denise said.   “None of them are
cheaters.   Until they cheat.   Then they’re dirty dogs.   To wit, Mark.”
    Norm
laughed.   “She thinks every man is Mark
now.   Don’t try to reason with her about
it anymore.   She’s officially a bitter
old woman.”
    Denise
smiled.   “I am not old and I am not
bitter.   You, on the other hand---”
    “Let’s
keep it clean children,” Jenay said.   “This is supposed to be a respectable joint.”
    They
all laughed.   Norm and Denise didn’t
realize that all eyes were on them, especially when they laughed or spoke
loudly, but Jenay did.    She was used to
it.   Even when she and Charles had dinner
there, and she would look up from her plate, some busybody or other would
quickly look away from her as if they’d been staring at her the entire time.
    Charles
finally broke free of the talkative businessmen and made his way toward Jenay’s
booth.   Norm, who was seated beside
Denise, stood and shook his hand.
    “How
are you, sir?” Charles asked Norm as they shook.
    “Very
well, thank-you,” Norm said.   He’d heard
all kinds of terrible things about Jenay’s husband, or Big Daddy Sinatra as the
townsfolk called him, but Charles was alright in Norm’s book.   He never seemed to look down on him, or treat
him differently because he was gay.   And
in a   judgmental town like Jericho, Norm
thought, that was a big deal.
    Charles
nodded toward Denise, who was seated on the inside seat.   “Hello Denise.”
    “Hi,”
Denise responded with a smile.   She had
forgotten how great looking the guy was.   He was just as gorgeous as his son Brent.   Maybe even more so.  
      Charles moved over to Jenay, leaned over and
kissed her affectionately on the lips.
    “How
did it go?” Jenay asked him as he sat down.   “Made a deal?”
    “We
did actually,” Charles responded.   Then
he looked at his wife.   “How about with
you?   Everything okay?”
    “Everything’s
good.”
    “My
baby?”
    “Your
baby’s fine.   Both of them.”
    “Yuk,”
young Denise said like an embarrassed teenager, and Charles laughed.   “What were you guys talking about?” he asked
his wife.
    “Your
faithfulness,” Jenay said.   Norm and
Denise were stunned that she would tell him the truth.
    Charles,
however, wasn’t stunned at all.   “Oh
yeah?” he said.   “So you were wondering
if I was cheating on you?”
    “Something
like that.”
    “Actually,”
Denise said, “I made the comment that all men cheat.   In my view.”
    But
Charles shook his head.   “Impossible,” he
said.
    Denise
frowned. “What’s so impossible about it?”
    “I’m
not dead yet.   If I cheated on Jenay, I
would not be alive to talk about it.   That’s for damn sure.”
    At
first they all smiled, and then they all laughed.   People looked at their lively table, Charles
noticed those arrogant looks, but he and Jenay both   ignored them.   They were having fun.   And they
continued throughout the evening.
    After
dinner, they all piled into the new car Charles had just purchased for her, a
dark-red Mercedes S-class.   Although
Jenay had resisted such a purchase, she had to admit now that she was pleased.   She, in fact, was still excited about driving
it when Charles automatically got behind the wheel and drove it himself.   He drove them all to the B & B where Norm
and Denise had rooms.   Jenay had some
papers she needed to get out of her office, and then she and Charles were going
to head home to their little girl, so Charles went inside too.  
    Norm
and Denise stood around the front desk laughing and talking with the desk clerk
while Charles placed his hands in his pockets and walked around the lobby
looking at the beautiful artwork Jenay had installed.   The place looked a hundred times better since
she was in charge, and he was proud of her.   He reminded himself to