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Charlotte answers the door for Allison. "Good morning. How are you feeling?" She asks. Charlotte notices the cute yellow sundress Allison's wearing and how it flatters her hour glass figure.

"I'm better. I had a stomach bug. " Allison lies, she's called in sick the past week to avoid seeing Cooper after their 'therapy' session.

"You must have had it bad. You called in sick the whole week. I think Cooper's coming down with it now." Charlotte tells her as she grabs her purse.

"Really? Why?" Allison wonders.

"Cooper hasn't got out of bed this morning. I told him you were coming today; that you didn't call in sick and he said to tell you to just take care of the kids today; that he wasn't feeling good and that he was going to stay in the bedroom aside from going to his therapy session at the hospital."

"Wow, he must be feeling pretty bad." Allison wonders if he's just trying to avoid her by staying in his room.

"Yeah, he hasn't had any breakfast. Maybe you could check on him in a little while." Charlotte walks out the door.

"Sure thing." Allison answers behind her and she goes into the den to see the kids.

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Charlotte and the new doctor,Todd Turi, are eating lunch together. "What's wrong? You seem preoccupied." Todd asks Charlotte as she munches on a salad.

"Everything and nothing. I don't know." She takes a deep breath and tells him.

"I'm listening." He looks in her eyes.

"I had a big fight with Cooper the other night after you left. We've hardly spoken to each other since. We only talk to each other if it has something to do with the kids. He doesn't even know I accepted the job at St. Ambrose." She rubs her head with her hand.

"Wow! You accepted the job at St. Ambrose without discussing it with him?" Todd's eyes widen.

"No, we discussed it. He was opposed at first then when we went to lunch the other day and he all the sudden changed his mind and told me to take it. He says that he wants me to be happy. So I took it. I was going to tell him about it at dinner that night, the night you brought the jeep over, but we had a big fight and I never got to tell him." She sighs.

"What was the fight about?"

"It started about you. He got his panties in a wad because you had to set the car up for Bryce. He thinks that he's less of a man because he can't do those things." She looks up at Todd. "Then somehow it escalated into him blaming me for his accident and me calling him stupid for attempting to jump over the stump and getting thrown off the horse."

"And you haven't spoken about it since? That was three days ago."

"I know and I feel terrible. I want to talk to him but I don't know what to say." Charlotte takes a deep breath and puts her fork down suddenly losing her apetite.

"Start with sorry." Todd reaches across the table and touches her hand to get her attention. "Tell him you're sorry for calling him stupid. That'd be a good place to start." He smiles. "If I was him I'd feel the same way. The guy has to feel helpless not being able to do those things for his kids. You said he can't even pick your daughter up and carry her around. It's got to be an awful feeling not being able to take care of your own kids or wife." He rubs her hand.

"I know." She looks at his hand on hers and appreciates the comfort. "I should be more understanding of him. I know he's frustrated he can't do things for the kids and especially me."

"What can't he do for you?" Todd asks innocently

Charlotte raises her head and looks in his eyes. "Let's just say since the accident it isn't just his legs that are weak."

"Oh!" Todd realizes he can't satisfy her in the bedroom since the accident. He never thought about that before.

"It's a good thing my specialty is sexology."

"Having a hot wife like you and not being able to do it. That blows." He looks at Charlotte. "You need to apologize. No wonder he doesn't feel like a man."

Charlotte chuckles. "I'll tell him about the job at St. Ambrose and apologize at dinner tonight. I'll pick up his favorite wine and we'll celebrate."

"Celebrate you taking the job at St. Ambrose?" Todd inquires.

"That and Charlotte King apologizing!" She laughs. He laughs too and they go back to eating their lunch.

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Allison puts the kids down for their afternoon nap and knocks on the door to Cooper's bedroom, which is locked. "Cooper? Are you okay in there?" She calls from behind the door.

Cooper's lying in bed watching television. He didn't bother getting dressed yet since he's locked himself in the bedroom all morning. He's chest is bare and he's only wearing the boxers he wore to bed last night. He ignores her.

Allison knocks again. "Cooper, I brought you some lunch. It's a sandwich and chocolate pudding, the same thing I fed Bryce. Would you like some? Open the door."

Cooper thinks about yelling for her to go away but he decides to remain silent. Then he hears the lock pop open and the door knob turns.

Allison pushes open the door and walks in. She sees he's wearing nothing but boxers and says, "I'm sorry. Dr. King said you were sick and I should check on you. You didn't answer me so I wanted to make sure you weren't dead in here."

Cooper scrunches his nose and looks at her. "I'm not that old. I'm not ready to keel over just yet." He notices the cute sundress with spaghetti straps she's wearing.

"I got nervous when you didn't answer so I popped the lock with a paper clip."

"You're a regular cat burglar." He jokes.

She walks in the room and puts the food on the table next to the bed. She sits on the bed next to him. "I think we should talk about what happened the other day."

"You weren't really sick all those days you called in. Were you?" He asks noticing she's not wearing a bra under her sundress.

"No, just like you didn't lock yourself in the bedroom today because you're sick either. You're trying to avoid me?" She offers him a bottled water and he takes it. He's been locked in the bedroom without anything to eat and drink all morning into afternoon.

"You got me." He says drinking the water and picking up the sandwich. "Thanks by the way. I was starving in here."

"That's why it's best we talk about what happened, so it's not awkward between us." Allison suggests.

"I thought about firing you but what would I tell Charlotte? You're great with the kids and they love you. Why would I say I wanted to fire you?"

"So you're not going to tell her about us then?" Allison's surprised.

"I was planning on it but then we go into a big fight the other night and we're barely on speaking terms as it is. So no I didn't tell her."

"What was the fight about? Me?" Allison's curious.

"No, not about you. It was about me not being able to do things that a man should be able to do for his family."

"Oh I could testify to it, you're all man alright." She winks at him.

"Not funny." He says taking a bite out of his sandwich. "We should have never done that."

"I know and that's why we need to talk" She flips her hair back." We need to talk about it so things aren't uncomfortable between us."

"Yeah." He agrees. "Because right now I can barely look at you." Cooper doesn't make eye contact but his eyes are drawn to her yellow sundress.

"I really need this job. While I was off I looked at the want ads and made a few calls but nobody will pay me as well as you and Dr. King." She flips her hair swinging it and it brushes his chest lightly.

He sighs and focuses. "Dr. King and I pay you well because your great with the kids. They love you."

"I love them too. I love em like they're my own. Savannah even calls me momma."

Cooper looks at her now. "Yeah, and that hurts Charlotte."

Allison answers. "I'm with Savannah all day long while Dr. King is at work. Savannah's a baby she gets confused." She swings her long hair again.

He holds back from trying to touch the long silky hair. "It is Charlotte's choice to work." He shrugs his shoulders. "I guess that's the price she has to pay for leaving her all day."

"Savannah will know Dr. King is her mother as she gets older. Right now Savannah spends most of her day with me and you." Allison looks him in they eyes. "She only sees Dr. King in the night and then she is sleeping anyway."

"The kids love you Allison, so I'm not going to fire you but what happened between us last week can't ever happen again. Do you understand?" He looks her in the eyes now.

"I know it was wrong because you're married and I would never try it again but I don't regret it." She takes a sip of water from his bottle that he placed on the table.

Cooper tells her "Well I regret it because it's going to hurt Charlotte when she finds out."

"You never cheated on her before?" Allison asks.

"No. She cheated on me once before we were married and it hurt like hell. I don't want her to feel that way."

"You still married her?" She sips the water again.

"Yes, I forgave her." He takes the water from her and takes a sip to wash his sandwich down. "That's my water."

"So she has to forgive you. Now you're even." She answers grabbing the water back from him. "I'm thirsty too."

"Get your own water." He tells her. "It's different. We're married now. We were dating when she cheated on me." He tugs the water and it spills down her dress. She jumps. "Sorry." He tells her and smirks. He can't help but stare at her with the top of her dress wet.

"I still don't regret it." She wipes her dress with a napkin. " It was incredible. I want to do it again. Not with you of course….but." She moves the napkin around inside her dress to wipe away the wetness.

Cooper watches her and asks "Why not with me? ... Because I'm a cripple?"

"No, you were awesome." She pulls the napkin out of her dress. " Not with you because you're married." She puts the napkin down. " I want to do it again because it felt so surprisingly good." She tells him looking up toward the ceiling.

"Don't tell me it was your first time? Don't tell me that you were a virgin?"

"It wasn't my first time. My first time was with a guy I dated a few years ago. I wanted to wait but he rushed me into it. I was nervous and tense. We did it a few times after but I would always tense up and when I did start to loosen up he would always finish before I even had a chance." Allison explains.

"So this was the first time you experienced the big O?" Cooper asks.

"Yes. And it was better than I imagined." She has a devious smile.

"That's why you were screaming so loud." He chuckles.

"And you were great. I mean the way you made me feel. You weren't selfish like my ex."

"Glad I could help." Cooper smiles and stares at her chest. He feels himself engorge . He takes a bite from his sandwich but it falls apart in his hand as he's distracted by her. Bacon, lettuce and tomato spill on to his chest and abdomen.

Allison automatically starts to pick the food off of him and put it back on the plate.

"You missed a piece."He tells her.

She looks down, "where?"

"I think it may have fallen in my shorts. Can you get it?" He winks at her.

"Are you sure you want me to?" She's confused.

"I want you to." He answers.

She reaches into his boxers and feels around. "I can't find it." She says as she moves her fingers around him.

"Oh I think you found it. You've got your hands on it right now." He tells her.

"That's a huge hunk of meat." She licks her lips.

She pulls down the top of her sundress and Cooper immediately has his mouth on her breasts. He pulls her up; face to face and kisses her mouth. She kisses him back until her tongue is almost down his throat. He pulls down her panties and rubs her. They're both kissing and touching and moaning. He shuffles off his boxers and thrusts himself into her. They move together hard and fast. She screams. He chuckles and pushes into her harder and deeper until he makes her scream louder. He feels her convulse around his hardness. She's yells "Coop! Coop! Coop!" He groans. She lets out a final shriek "Cooper!" and she breaths hard. He explodes inside her, his warm juice shoots in her. She falls down on top of him. She's breathing hard but manages to sputter out. "Cooper." Cooper squeezes her tight and holds her.

She lifts her head and looks into his eyes. "I think I'm falling in love with you." She gives him a soft kiss on the lips.

He doesn't return the kiss, instead her rubs her back "You're mistaking love for lust, Al. You can't love me. I'm married."

"Dr. King doesn't know how lucky she is." Allison lies her head on his chest and tells him.

Cooper holds her. She's not that lucky, Cooper thinks. He's knows he needs to be honest and tell Charlotte. He hopes she's as forgiving to him as he was about Archer but he's worried. He'll tell her tomorrow. He thinks!

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