He couldn’t help going over and over the two deaths. He couldn’t help but wonder if he should have spared the two somehow, if he shouldn’t have ...ried to wound them or maim them instead. He kept asking himself if there had been another way, a way to neutralize them but still keep them alive.Off and on, tears streamed down his face – but he kept his face averted from Ardt. He didn’t want the man to see him cry. He didn’t want Ardt to see the guilt in his face.Would Teran be able to read his face?. " Peter, I..."But there was a telltale click from the other end and the voice was already gone.Lynn had told herself she had to break it off, end this madness, yet the sound of Peter's voice had instantly destroyed her resolve. She wanted the secure, comfortable, loving life with Gary, yet Peter had opened the Pandora's box and Lynn felt her heart beating wildly in anticipation of being with him and the immense sensuality he awakened in her.The rest of the afternoon she spent deciding on a. I close my bedroom door and grab my computer just as a text arrives from Lauren. "Did you put the vibrator back?" her text reads. Fuck!I look around and see it on the floor next to the bed. "No," I text back. "Where was it?" Top left drawer, along the edge. Not covered or anything." Thx." I text and open my door just as Rachel crosses the hallway to the bathroom. I wait long enough for her to be in the shower, then run into the kitchen and wash Lauren's smell off the vibrator. I dry it and. “Jeez! Grandma, what if we get caught?” “What if we do? It ain't like it's never been done before in the history of the world. Just keep it quiet 'cause I don't want you busted for possession.” I hadn't considered that aspect, being befuddled by the prospect of swimming in the nude with my own flesh and blood. We reached the fence and she opened it silently. Going directly to the water she dropped the robe and the white of her skin was even paler in the moonlight. Gran walked down the steps,.