"It sounds like you're talking from experience."
I glanced over at him, "You could say that."
I waited a little while before I drove the point home, "Believe it or not the best and most useful tool to help you both fit in and better yet enjoy your life is a wife. A good wife is much more than just a good lay when you want it. She'll be there to comfort you, when you wake up drenched in sweat in the middle the night. She'll be reason enough to hold a boring job down, in order to provide her with the things she needs and thus giving you a routine to fall into that you'll receive respect from eventually. She'll be there for you to tell your worst fears to and if she's good she'll never laugh at you for doing so. She'll be someone you can trust, as much as, you did your best buddy, who always had your back. She'll help you make a life together that you'll be able to become so busy in that there won't be any time for troubling thoughts. She'll be, along with your children, the force that gets you up every morning. In short a good wife is one of the most precious things a man can ever receive in life."
I grew silent remembering my own history.
"She's gone?"
I glanced over at him, "Yes, for a long time now. I'd do almost anything to have one more moment with her, but some things are truly gone forever when they're gone."
The mood inside the truck had gotten too serious.
"Another thing about a great wife is you can't beat the unlimited sex, when it comes to getting rid of tension."
I caught a glimpse of a smile as he quickly glanced back out his window.
"I'm serious! It's the best cure for tension that's still legal in all fifty states and it doesn't even kill brain cells!"
We are almost to Ted's place.
"Deshavi isn't good wife material, at the moment, but if you're interested and you wait, as the good book says 'all good things come to those who wait upon the Lord and put their trust in Him'. Without faith Trent, you truly are alone. You need to get that firmly in place before anything else in your life."
I heard Trent softly mutter out the window, "I'm just here to visit my grandfather."
I smiled and just shook my head. It was never that simple, when a woman like Deshavi was involved. He may be here to just visit his grandfather, but all that was filling his mind right now was the image of my granddaughter and her skintight jeans and open looks of invitation.