If you could have anyone you wanted, whenever you wanted, anywhere you wanted them, would you feel blessed? Well, I could and I did feel blessed. But for every blessing there is a price to pay and the full cost is never really known until it's incurred.
In 1917 Joanna Begg and her family were on a peaceful cruise off San Diego when the yacht broke down. They believed their luck was in when their SOS signal was picked up by a mysterious sailing ship.
A young man, just out of law school, learns that he is rich. He is told that he should look for a Diamond, like his mother, for a wife. He find her, but she is in a coma like state. He gambles and put all he, or is, has on the line.
What's a girl to do? She needs to feel sorry for herself, wants to be alone. But then a guy turns up with even bigger problems. Damn, it's Girl Scout to the rescue.
A middle-aged man falls in love with his daughter's best friend. Turns out, she feels the same about him. As with most of my stories, this is a story, with the sex coming as needed to advance the plot. An intergenerational romance...
This is a continuation of the story 'Contemplating Mother', but can stand on its own. A man reminisces about his mother and their strange relationship from his teen years to adulthood. There may be a lactation theme, but denial is the point of the story. Nursing persists only as an excuse to indulge in more intimate pursuits.