Chapter 791

• Vanessa moved into Jack's house about two weeks later.
• It was an inevitable development, but for Vanessa it still represented a big step: her first time cohabiting with a man! The idea of sharing this huge house with her lover made her feel once more like a combined wife and daughter. She plunged into her spousal responsibilities--outside of the bedroom--with enthusiasm, taking up the cooking duties at once and making sure the place was neat and tidy. But Jack wasn't about to reduce Vanessa to the level of a household drudge: he had a cleaning woman come in once a month, and a gardener also came by every so often to keep the front and back yards in good shape.
• As the classwork heated up in April, both Jack and Vanessa had to hit the books pretty hard, although they made abundant time for cuddling. But their life took a very strange turn one Saturday afternoon when Vanessa was in the house alone, having spread her books and papers all over the dining-room table while writing a term paper. Jack had gone out to run some errands.