Susan started to recount her conversations with various relatives. Jim wasn’t interested in that. He let Susan talk while he continued to probe her ...ind looking for clues as to what had really happened during the missing two hours. When he discovered it he nearly dropped his drink.Fear competed with rage and lost. “Those sons of bitches!”“What?”“Oh shit,” Jim thought. A mind probe erased the incident from Susan’s mind.“Refill?”“No, thanks. I think I’ll go to bed. I’m kind of tired.”“Do you feel. I never lost the eye contact in this entire conversation! We both somehow managed to stand up! Still the eye contact was intact! I pulled her like 3cm close to me and asked again! Now she was just 2 cms away from my lipsMe: please? I don’t know what happened to her!P: Ok!I did not even wait for a fraction of second her lips were so soft! I kissed her for nearly 15-20 mins! Initially she did not respond but after like 5 mins she responded and the kiss became very much intense! It was very very. " I'm really completely at ease about him. He doesn't have that smarmy quality, like your guy from Penn." Burton." Yeah, Burton coiled-like-a-snake Coyle." Jeez, Ma. If you don't like somebody, don't just skirt around the edges like that. Say it plain!" Nap time." Alissa said, and left."I'm glad you liked your future son-in-law," Susan hollered from downstairs.God, I hope Dan didn't put the whammy on us today. If we don't end up together, it'll be one more huge notch to carve on Mom's pessimism. By lunch time we had worked through almost all of the files. There were only a half dozen left for this afternoon.At 11:30, Blake stood and said, "Come on. We are going for an early lunch. I want to beat the rush."I stood and grabbed my purse. I had felt relatively comfortable here in my office with Blake. It was my own little safety zone. I was nervous about leaving it. But it wasn't my decision to make.We went out of the building and turned in the same direction we had walked when we went out.