She could feel his eyes on her black leather mini skirt, it was a modest skirt that came very so slightly above her knees. She called it her age appro...riate skirt, thigh high minis were for young girls in their 20s but when you had shapely Tina Turner legs, it wasn’t necessary to flaunt them. Show just enough and let a guy’s imagination do the rest. Her cleavage today was also modest, a red knit sweater showing just a hint of her mounds.“Um, so, Rick, I have those books you were looking for. Instead she stood up abruptly, told Elspeth that she was glad everything was all right, and walked briskly off. ‘James, I was terrified,’ Elspeth was telling me. ‘I knew I’d made some awful mistake, and she’d got what she wanted out of me. I couldn’t think of anything except that I’d made a mess of things and I had to tell you about it.’ I tried to reassure her (and myself). ‘Is it really that bad? She’s obviously worked out somehow that something was going on at the garden party, but doesn’t. I’ll be at the gates.” Then I shouldered my backpack and headed for the door.Lionel wasn’t my father, and it wasn’t any of his business, but that didn’t stop him from acting like an overprotective father.My duty to my family ended when they proved I didn’t matter to them. I’m going to live my life as I wish, and that includes inviting someone into my bed. The hard part will be pounding that into Lionel’s well-meaning but thick skull.If only he hadn’t chased off that muscular young blacksmith. Rafi’s second choice was Tamerl El-Hassan who had spent 4 years at Camp Delta Guantanamo Bay. According to both, he was giving training at the Marion NY site and living in the apartment complex across from the college.We were done in two hours; I let the Doc off him and then Ching Lee, Vicky and I helped load him into the furnace and watch the flames engulf the body. Frank, Eric and Ben left for Washington.I was glad this part of the mess was over; there was going to be serious consideration.