Many thanks to those who so graciously pointed out my glaring mistake concerning Bobby's virginity. I hope this chapter clears it up to everyone's satisfaction.
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"I can't believe I'm actually sitting in my own house again," Louise Chandler told her mother-in-law as they entered the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator door and peered inside. "Three whole days it took for them to complete that damned autopsy. Can you believe it? Three days!"
"From what I've read," Grandma Lilly said, "that's just about normal."
"Normal?" Louise exclaimed. "What's normal about having to spend three days and nights thinking about someone slicing my husband open like a butchered cow?"
Lillian hugged her daughter-in-law with all the compassion she could muster. "It wasn't that much easier on the rest of us," she said.
"I know," Louise said ruefully as she returned the hug, letting the door swing shut. Despite her resolution to not have any more sexual relations with Bobby or Lillian, she felt herself getting a bit aroused the close contact. "That's why I'll always be grateful to you and Bobby for trying to keep me occupied so I would dwell in those things."
Lillian Chandler, still hugging her daughter-in-law, turned to face her. Tits were pressed against tits. Ever hardening nipples were trying to poke through each of their bras, burrow through their blouses and punch holes in each other's breasts. She kissed her passionately on the lips, all the while trying to insert her tongue into Louise's mouth but, Louise held firm, refusing to let the marauding have its way. She gently extricated herself from Lillian's grasp and backed up a couple of steps
"What's wrong?" Grandma Lilly asked.
"Nothing," Louise said in almost a whisper. "It's just that I told you two on the way home that I wasn't sure we could continue carrying on the way we did in the motel room."
"Don't me and Bobby have a vote in this?" Lillian asked.
"You two can do what you like, when you like," Louise told her mother-in-law. "It's not appropriate behavior, but you are both adults. I can't stop you."
Grandma Lilly laughed to herself. "Like she could stop us," she thought. Then she told Louise, "Bobby's good for me."
"He was good for me, too," Louise Chandler replied, "but I want more out of life than just a roll in the hay with my son."
"You mean, like, munching your girlfriend's carpet?"
"Donna ain't no relative," Louise countered.
Once again, Grandma Lilly pulled her daughter-in-law close to her. She ran her hand over her own mound. "It's gonna be a while before he gets any more of this treasure. Thought I might give it all to you."
Louise blinked. "I don't believe a word of that," she said. "As hard as you two were rutting for the past few nights, I figured once we got home, you two would be doing it twenty-four, seven."
"That's why I sent him to the store," Grandma Lilly said. "So I would have time to think about it and we could talk."
Louise laughed. "Yeah, right! You just wanted to get me alone so you could have your way with me."
"That, too," Lillian Chandler said as she leaned in to kiss her daughter-in-law.
Louise Chandler returned the kiss with quite a bit of passion, even allowing Grandma Lilly's tongue to enter her mouth for a couple of seconds before pushing her away. "I told you," she said a bit breathlessly.
No matter what she did to try and stoke her daughter-in-law's fires of lust, Grandma Lilly's advances were rebuffed. "I don't understand how you can turn your emotions on and off like a faucet," she said.
Louise looked at her with pleading eyes. "I just need some time," she said. "Time and a little space."
Grandma Lilly apologized profusely, took Louise by the hand and led her into the living room. "Be glad when Bobby gets home," she sighed as they sat on opposite ends of the sofa. "We've got a lot to talk about."
Louise Chandler curled her legs under her and scratched her ear. "Like, why you're not gonna let Bobby near you anymore?" she asked.
"Not 'anymore'," Grandma Lilly said. "Just for a while."
"How come?"
"I'm gonna tease him a bit about a fib he told me."
Louise Chandler pretended to be shocked. "Not my Bobby!" she said. "He wouldn't lie!"
Grandma Lilly laughed. "Yes, your Bobby. And, yes, he would."
"How big a fib was it?"
Grandma Lilly held up her hand and closed her thumb and forefinger until they were about a quarter inch apart. "About that big," she said
Louise Chandler let one leg dangle over the edge of the sofa. "Tell me about it."
Grandma Lilly cleared her throat and began. "That first night we were alone. After you called to let us know you and Hank wouldn't be home. I asked him if he were a virgin."
Louise leaned forward. "And. . .?"
"He told me he'd done it with some girl named Becky a couple of times. He said it rather proudly, too."
Louise's eyes widened. She snorted. "Becky Brubaker? From two houses down? I don't think so. That family is too damned pious for something like that to happen."
"He said, 'Becky, from down the street.'"
Louise Chandler was aghast. "Why, those 'holier than thou' sons-of-bitches!" she exclaimed. "They won't hardly give anyone on the block the time of day. You seriously think they'd let their precious little girl out of their sight long enough to do something like that?"