She started to back away from her son."Cool it Mom, I don't want to crawl your bones. If you weren't my mother and didn't nag so much I might be inter...sted." He grinned at her confusion."There in Claude's office I saw you do something where you were not being a demanding, bossy bitch. I liked it." Oh Mark honey, I was only trying to do my best to raise you right. I'm sorry." All her demanding attitude disappeared as she tried another approach."I did not want you to be like either your father or. ”“Only a few of them,” Roxie countered. “It wasn’t very nice for that guy to say that, but I’ve learned that folks aren’t always nice.”“I should have expected it. I always seem to be caught off guard when things like that happen,” Cal explained. “I’m just not good at anticipating those things.”Roxie thought that perhaps Cal had opened the door just a tiny bit.“Maybe it’s because you always expect the best from everyone,” she offered. “And isn’t that the way good things get started?”When Roxie. I entered my office after watching them disappear, and noticed the chill, right off. I sighed and built up the fire in my fireplace. Somehow, I had not banked the fire well enough, and it had gone out... again.Which brought me to a new spell. It had suggested itself to me, just lately. I had been mulling the problem of the cold inside the guardhouse, this year. Once the stone walls were cold, it kept the inside cold as well, except for the heated places. The warmest place in the guardhouse, was. "I can't wait to see you either. I love you." I replied as Mike grabbed his laptop bag from next to the dresser."I love you too! Oh yeah, and make sure you call me when you get home from the doctor." Mike said as he walked out the bedroom door.I laid back down and rolled over toward the night stand that had my used dildo resting next to the clock that read 6:55 AM.I heard the door close on Mike's SUV, the engine start, and the sound of him pulling out of the driveway. I sat back up, and crawled.