You’ll probably want a bath – you’re cold and wet. In the bathroom, steam curled invitingly from the piping hot water. She appeared at the door....There you go – clean towels and use my bathrobe. Something to eat – drink? As he filled the kettle and put some bread in the toaster he thought about the girl. Who was she? He’d found her nearly forty minutes ago and she still hadn’t said a single word. Strange. Maybe she was mute, or deaf, or something. And those eyes…All the while she was eating the. “We didn’t know which ones the woman may have been in if any. We started with the larger department stores, and each of those had close to a hundred employees that we had to interview to see if anyone had seen her. It took us a week to speak with every employee at every store that had been on duty that day. We got to Tiffany’s the second day, but as the sheriff mentioned, someone else had apparently known about the woman’s purchase and beaten us to the clerk in question.”Tyler wasn’t positive,. We helped differentiate the two of us by referring to Mom as Beth and me as Liz. Mom was awesome. She was smart, witty and a loving mother. Her love was archeology, history and horrible English comedy. She had graduated with honors from the Naval Academy, drove around big warships for awhile, got out, got her Masters in archeology and started travelling the world digging up the past. She met my father on a dig in Thailand. She got pregnant and had my sister Claire. They decided that. Mouth. Mouth over mercy, every time. Actually, mouth equaled mercy right now. I was so hard it hurt. My balls felt like clenched fists and I swore I could still feel her palm, gently rolling them around and around and around.Her: I am so hungry, daddy. Hungry and naughty.I shivered. My whole body shivered, bumping against the table, and I made a stifled little sound that had the colleague next to me glancing over worriedly. I could only hope he interpreted it as indigestion or something.Not.