Japheth I’d had so many erotic dreams about Regina over the years, that at first I was afraid this was just another nighttime fantasy. I mean, how improbable was it that Regina had left work early, that she had willingly come down to the barn, that she had apologized to me, and that she had actually given me permission to kiss her. I felt a little stab of guilt when she apologized. Today I had no intention of doing anything that would jeopardize Reggie’s career, but that hadn’t always been true. I’d done my best to discourage her ambitions when we were married, even when I hadn’t been entirely aware of what I was doing or why I was doing it. But I’d had five long years to over-analyze every mistake I had made with Reggie. Truthfully, underneath what looked like confidence and arro