How can two people who are "attractive," "highly intelligent, caring and feeling." make such a mess of their lives? What happens next? This is my second attempt at this story.
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.