The whole dinner was long and boring which was an odd reaction for Jack Shepherd considering he usually loved attending dinner parties. His mind was consumed with how he left her with the back of her dress open, hair everywhere and her horribly sad face. As Jack looked at the women to his right she was in fact the opposite image. Juliet was beaming and how ever much Jack enjoyed these dinner parties she loved them double the amount. She looked almost not human with her hair done up and make up plastered on her face. To use the words Kate had spoke earlier she looked exactly like a porcelain doll. Juliet liked it this way, she loved being done up. Jack did love Juliet she was his first wife and had given him three sons. She was collect, well mannered, beautiful, and loved order. Everything Jack wanted in a wife, he could see a lot of him self in her. The side that enjoyed having rules and structure, the Jack that went to these dinner parties was the part of him that was embedded in Juliet. Even if Juliet could be manipulative at times and threw around the fact that she was the first wife, but Jack also favored this personality trait. The attitude of being cut throat could be inherited by their sons and is something that successful businessmen have, making the likely hood of great success for the next generation of Shepherd Shipping Company. This was Jack's logical side which until a certain brunette came into his life; logic was what ran his life.

Upon arriving back home Juliet became aggressive due to the fact that she might have had one to many glasses of wine. While she was currently attacking his neck, Jack just did not feel up to the task.

Jack moved Juliet from devouring his neck so he could look her in the eyes, "Juliet I think that we might want to slow down, you have had quit a few drinks."

"But….You always take me after we go to parties. That is the way it has been since we first became man and wife. Do you really want to change our tradition? "

Jack knew that she was right and this is how matters were done between them. "I suppose your right Juliet. Breaking a tradition between us is something that should never happen. "

Juliet could not wipe the smirk off her face as she moved back to her place on his neck. She knew exactly what to say to get the Master of the house to carry out her demands. Sure she would follow the rules and be a perfect lady when he was around. If she wanted a new dress or if she wanted one of the maids to get in trouble just a few words and she would always get what she desired. Sometimes she could even have him thinking that it was his idea to begin with. What Juliet wanted now was to be pregnant again with another son for him. When Master Shepherd made Sarah his second she was not worried at the least, she knew that her dear cousin would perpetually be under her thumb and then adding the trouble with having his children Sarah would never take his fixation from her. However, this new wife of his was younger and despite not coming from a wealthy background she was beautiful. It was only a matter of time before she would be with child, causing all of his attention to go to her, but not if Juliet got pregnant as well. Then his focus would mainly be on her again as it had always been since day one.

Once Jack returned to his bed he could not fall asleep. He stared up into the darkness, his room felt cold and unwelcoming. Then when he closed his eye he would see her smile, then a flash of her green eyes would come to him, he still remember the way she smelled and how her body melted into his. Then his eyes shot open, "That is it I can't take it anymore!" Jack then headed towards her room.

Jack moved the blanket back; she was on her side facing away from him. He laid his front to her back, so that he was spooning her and brought his arm around to knead her breast and his lips were laying light kisses on her shoulder. Then his kisses moved all the way up to her ear. Jack's voice came out in a raspy lustful tone, "Kate I need you. It has been killing me not being able to make love to you for the past three days." Then he pushed his need into her, so she could feel just how badly he wanted her.

She then turned to face him; her eyes were red and swollen form crying. "Jack I'm sorry, but I just….I can't. Not tonight, today has been a horrible day."

"Hey come here. It's ok Kate. It is ok." Jack was stroking her hair and holding her close to him. Whatever desire he felt was gone the second he saw her face and the urge to comfort her took over.

"Talk to me Kate. What is the matter?"

"Everything is the matter! No one ever really talks to me, unless you count Rose when she is scolding me. I use to live in a small home full of love and now I live in this huge loveless home. Jack you want to know something sad, you're the only person that I can talk to and you're never around. When you do come around all you want to do is use me for sex. I don't even feel like myself anymore."

Jack felt ashamed at how he had treated her. "Kate I'm so sorry. I'm just use to treating my wives that way and it has worked with them for years. I just amused that it would work with you, but you are different. I should have known to treat you in another manner than how I treat them. Instead I fought to make you just like them. Truth is Kate I'm not myself when I'm around you, you bring out this side in me that I did not know was even still alive and it scares me. "

"If I'm so different and I scare you so much, then why am even here?"

"Kate the first time I saw you I was stopped right in my tracks and you took the very air that I breathe right out of me. I knew that you had to be mine. Just the thought of another man looking at you drives me crazy. When you cry it is worse than my own tears, but when you smile it brings me so much joy even though I rarely see it. Yes you may scare me, but in the best way possible. That is why you are here."

Kate was looking at him wide eyed with her mouth open; she was taken aback and did not know how to respond.

Jack decided that he would speak up, "Kate I'm sorry for making you wear those dresses. I will by you less elaborate dresses, but yet they will still be nice. You may go outside now, but you must remain clean."

"Really!"

"Yes really."

"Thank you so much Jack!" Kate then gave him a huge hug.

The fact that he had brought this happiness to her made him feel good.

Kate's room felt warm and comforting to him pulling him to the sleep that he sought earlier. Jack and Kate fell asleep in each others arms with the sounds of their breathing in each others ears.