"This they did, draining their glasses, putting on their coats, andexiting. As the others were leaving, Grace took Adam aside."Hang back a minute, Ada..., and let the others head off to their tubes andbuses. Stay with me while I wait for my boyfriend Hugo to come and pickme up. There's something I want to show you."Adam did as she asked, and when they were alone Grace got down tobusiness."I've never told you how I first got interested in the Ripper murders,have I?" No, I don't believe you have.". Once I got her to open up, everything just flowed out as she was away from her family and didn't have any close friends so she had no one to talk to. She signed the divorce papers last week and she handled that OK but last night she saw her ex with another younger woman at a restaurant and they were very "touchy feely", something he never was with her. It wasn't even the woman he cheated on her with, it was someone else, someone "young, pretty and not a fat pregnant whale." was how she put it.. I noted my bank balance on the computer, our only outside contact with the world. Double checking the recent deposits totaling well over $135,000 dollars silently cursing to myself, that we were not charging enough. As it would barely cover our monthly expenses. But, it had been a slow month for sales, vowing that next month I must raise our sales price to increase our profits. My business depended on keeping all my partners contented. Leaving the office, I walked outside heading for the dock.. .. cougar."Hey, Mrs. Evans, what cha doin?"Audrey shuddered at the sound coming from the top of the fence. It was Kevin--the neighborhood menace. And he couldn't have come at a worse time."I'm masturbating, Kevin. What does it look like I am doing? Go away. Don't you have school today?" Nah. The teachers are having a teacher's conference today and we all got a day off."Audrey gritted her teeth and tried to keep her patience as she heard the little brat climb down from the fence and into her.