"It was mid-afternoon when the phone rang. Kevin picked it up eagerly, assuming that it was Jane, and desperately wanting an excuse to take a break. I... wasn't Jane. The woman on the other end of the phone was from Jane's workplace, and she was wondering why Jane hadn't shown up to work.A mild panic stirred in the pit of Kevin's stomach. Immediately after hanging up, he tried Jane mobile phone. Still no answer. He quickly did a Google search for accidents around town, but nothing useful showed. ” Well, I thought cynically, that wasn’t it.“Hello to you too,” Gina said archly, grinning at me.“Sorry. Are you okay?”“Of course I’m okay, you goof.”I blinked and treaded water.“Aren’t you going to say hello?” she asked shyly.I felt my neck and face heating. “Uh ... hi.”I looked over to the lake’s edge and my heart sank when I realized not only was my family watching, hers was too. They were all laughing. Great, I thought to myself, the first time I see Gina in almost a year, and I. But that teasing bitch has really pissed me off."As I soothed him, he sobbed out the story of how she had come onto him. He had been thrilled to receive the attention of theobject of his daydreams, and when it got sexual, he could barelyrestrain himself. But she had called all the shots, with theresult I had witnessed. It was painful to me to see such a good-looking young guy at the mercy of any woman because of his lack ofconfidence. I decided to help him the only way I knew.I slipped my. That's not what I signed up for." Maybe they want to put you in tanks or something," Jeff suggested."I'd go for that," he replied, lighting a cigarette. "I ain't gonna clean out no fuckin biosuits though. They better not even ask me that shit."Meanwhile, at the MPG deployment center, Lisa Wong was on duty behind her computer terminal in the administration part of the building. Her leg was healing up nicely from the shrapnel injury she'd received in the firefight at the main gate to EMB but she.