Foreword
Death affects people in many different ways. In this story Jane lost her child in child birth and her husband a few years later. She was crushed by the deathly blows life had dealt her.
She took a motherly interest in the young boy next door. When his mother dies, she becomes his substitute mother taking care of all of his needs. His needs do expand when he's fourteen and she becomes his lover, thereby substituting him for her son and her lost husband.
The two have a lovely romantic relationship as well as the mother-son deal. She takes the boy to PTA meetings and they have fine sexual relations after each outing.
The plot is complicated when the boy's father and Jane fall in love and after several orgies, get married. Jane is worried that her sexual relationship with the father, who is a vice officer, will put an end to what she and the son have.
Since she loves them both, she does not want to face the fact she will probably have to choose between the son, whose virginity she took, and the father who probably never was a virgin in his whole life!
She is afraid that the father will bust her if he ever finds out that she has been having sexual relations with his son. She finds it extremely difficult to give up her love for the young child ... if she can at all. Yet, she doesn't want to be put away in the slammer for child molesting and daddy sure can do it, being on the vice squad!
She thought about giving them both up. That would mean she would be back to being the lonesome, middle-aged woman who might possibly go mad for lack of love.