“It might be a bit dusty up there son, better take your shirt off first, save getting it dirty” he suggested and I figured that would be a good id...a so I pulled off my shirt giving it to him to hold, he looked at my body spending far too long studying my old shorts and as I picked up a box he stood behind me grabbing the ladder either side.Bert laughed and apologised for being so close to me but he was concerned for my safety and I must say I appreciated it as I did feel a bit woozy, I told him. Mostly Axorie, since she would invisibly lurk about interesting conversations, but the young men also gleened useful gossip. The town was a frontier settlement, having started as an outpost a mere century ago, and was surrounded by tiny communities huddled behind their wooden palisades, all within a half a day's journey. Their goddess of the wilderness, who dressed in leaves and often walked beside fierce beasts had held sway for the first fifty or sixty years since the founding of the town,. Jack didn't think it was slutty but very sexy. Jack dressed and they finished the bottle of Champagne. They went to the cocktail bar beside the a la carte restaurant. There was a bottle of Champagne, which Jack had never heard of for fifty-five pounds. Jack ordered a bottle. When he tasted it he knew that he wouldn't order another. Jack asked for the wine list again and ordered two bottles of a Premier Cru Chablis, which he knew. Ruth asked how much the Champagne was. Jack told her. Ruth said,. My Daddy handles all that kind of thing." She smiled in the sexiest way, moving along beside him as he finally decided to go up to his room and forget the drink, and her hip bumped against his as she followed him in the elevator, making him remember the untold, numerous hours and days they had spent together.He might have married her, he abruptly thought; it had been that intimately close between them. In fact, he'd carried the idea in his head for years, before he'd come to realize that he was.