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grandmother told
me,” he said.
    “ How have you been, Jeff? How’s
it going for you at the firm?”
    He stopped walking again and
turned to her. “It’s crazy busy, like always. I work late almost
every day. I’ve been thinking a lot about that. Wondering if this
is really what I want my life to be. Working until insane hours of
the night, going to clubs afterward just to try to kill the stress.
Getting up in the morning to do it all again. I’ve really been
giving it a lot of thought.”
    “ Didn’t you go to law school
to be a lawyer?” Serena asked. “I mean, I thought that’s what
you wanted. To be a partner one day and all of that.”
    “ I thought that’s what I
wanted, but now I don’t think that’s what I want,” Jeff said.
    “ What would you do if you
didn’t do that?” Serena said.
    “ I’m not sure,” he said.
    They walked a while longer, then
headed back to the car. Once inside, Jeff leaned over and kissed
Serena.
    “ I wish we could go somewhere,”
he said.
    “ There’s nowhere to go but
back to the cottage,” Serena said. And Jeff headed that way. They
tiptoed into the cottage when they got there.
    “ Nonna’s asleep, I’m sure,”
Serena whispered. “I’ll get us some wine and we can sit outside.”
    They sat in the chairs on the
porch and Serena poured glasses of wine. The lantern was turned down
low so it only gave out a faint light. After a few minutes, Serena
picked up an old quilt she had brought out and suggested they walk
around the yard. The very back of the yard was lined with Leyland
cypress trees, which provided a woodsy shelter. The trees were
planted four deep and if you walked into the center, you could not be
seen. You were in your own forest. She laid the quilt on the ground
and they sat down. The cypress stood like soldiers, tall and
majestic, around them. The full moon shone on the tops of the trees,
but could not penetrate the closely planted cypress, the forest.
    Serena was hungry, but not for
food. Jeff put his arm around her and nuzzled her neck. She turned
and met his lips with hers. They teased each other with their tongues
while they slipped out of their pants. Serena pushed Jeff back on the
quilt and climbed on top of him. She had never done that before with
him. She guided him into her and began to slowly rock her body. Back
and forth. Back and forth. Jeff reached out to touch her as she
rocked and she cried out in pleasure. She bent down to kiss him as he
groaned.
    Afterward, Jeff put his jacket
around Serena. It was a warm night for February but still had a
chill. She lay beside him and stared up to the tops of the cypress.
    “ Does Nonna know you’re
here?” she asked him.
    “ Yes. I went to the cottage
first. She told me I should go to Rossetti’s to find you. She said
she was tired and not to worry about getting in late.”
    Serena began to wonder if Nonna
had an agenda about her and Jeff.
    Serena and Jeff lay on the quilt
for a while before getting dressed and going inside to bed.
    “ I’m sorry, Jeff, but I’ve
got to work,” she told him the next morning over coffee and
breakfast made by Nonna.
    “ I know. It’s okay. Elena and
I are going to spend the day together.”
    Serena looked at her grandmother,
who had a smug smile on her face.
    “ I’ll come to Rossetti’s
tonight. Don’t you have some music group playing there?”
    “ How did you know that?”
Serena asked.
    “ I saw it on Facebook,” Jeff
said. He and Elena laughed then. Was her grandmother on Facebook now?
    “ Okay. That’s good. We’ll
see each other tonight then,” she said.
    Serena worked all day. She worked
hard. And when the dinner crowd was finally gone, the after-hours
people started streaming in. Serena had hired a duo who sang blues
and popular songs, a good combination. She sat at the bar and ordered
a martini from Sandy while the couple set up. A few minutes later,
Jeff joined her and ordered a martini for himself.
    “ You’ve done a good job