"Jed, can you zip me up?" Abbey was struggling to get into her gown in time for the state dinner for the Prime Minister of Norway. They only had ten minutes to get downstairs and they were running late as it was.

"Of course. Whatever you need, I'm here." He turned the corner from the bathroom but had to stop momentarily to take in the sight of his stunning wife in a glittering cream colored off shoulder gown with a slit up the left side that showed off her creamy legs. As he started again toward her, he said, "Uh, Abigail, are you trying to entice all the men that are going to be downstairs tonight?"

She smiled that vixen smile of hers and Jed knew he had already lost. "Why Jed, honey, whatever do you mean?"

He pulled the zipper up and leaned in to kiss the uncovered dip in her back and start up her prominent spine, intending to make his way up and around her bare shoulder until he could reach a more desired location. But she moved before he could go any further. Turning to face him, with her frontal curves very visible, she walked forward until she was just close enough to his body to feel something else. "Do you want me right now?"

"Well-l-l, yes." He stuttered, feeling his body come alive at just the thought of what he really wanted to do instead of what he knew he had to do.

She laughed and walked away. "Well, we can't. And you know that. We now have only minutes to get downstairs. But if you're good tonight maybe you'll get dessert twice tonight. Especially since I leave tomorrow for three weeks."

"You do? I didn't know that."

"Yes, you did. It's been on my schedule for months. A week in Europe at that Child Health Conference and then two weeks hopping through Africa and Australia."

"Oh yeah. Maybe I do remember some of that."

"Well, then be a good boy tonight."

"Oh, yeah, I'll be a real-l-l good boy. And let's make it an early evening."

"Hon, it's all up to you. You are the one who can't stop talking." Both laughed at that because they both knew who was the talker in the family. And it wasn't Abbey.

She grabbed her sapphire necklace and snapped it around her neck and finished it off with the sapphire and diamond drop earrings. Looking back at her husband in his black tux, she smiled again. "Ready?"

As he met her and took her hand, he mumbled under his breath. "In more ways than one."

"Did you say something, Jethro?"

"No, dear."