Thank the stars for the weekend and Marla.She had called during the afternoon to say she would be late. Her job wasas demanding as mine, but she was ...astly more satisfied with it. Also,honesty compelled me to admit that she was also vastly more diplomaticthan I and could bend without losing her self-respect.Arriving home shortly after five, I shed my suit coat, loosened my tie,and sat on the still-sunny deck with a relaxing rum-and-tonic. The sightand sound of the Gulf still had the power to. He opened his eyes again, and looked at her. She stayed in my bedroom with me. My head hurts too much to even think about that.Forcing himself to get out of bed, he padded silently across the floor, not wanting to wake her. After visiting the bathroom, and finding a couple of aspirin for his headache he made his way quietly to the living room, flipping on the lamp. A soft yellow glow filled the room, outlining his drawn features in shadows as he sat on the couch. This is all just a bad dream.... ”Jake read Mark. He had been musing on his liaison with his secretary when Jan had started yelling at him. Damn, Jake thought. She had gone from sensing simple thoughts to following Mark’s thoughts at full speed in a single day. She was going to be a fine mind reader. Jake had thought that he would have more time to get Jan ready for the shocking things she would read in other people.“So she figured out you were having an affair that you never told her about?”Mark hung his head. “Yes, that. Later, people passing by in a car would describe the lightening strike for him. Out of the sheet of lightening, it seemed as if a ball of energy dropped to the top of the rise and started down the path after him. When he was a little more than two-thirds of the way across the field, the ball overtook him. They said it simply rolled up and engulfed him. They saw it roll past the ATV, but he was no longer there. The ball then seemed to raise up on two legs and began running toward the house. With.