If things panned out the way he hoped, he wasn't going to get much work done between now and then anyway.Half an hour after the last bell rang, Jacob ...eard a knock at his door. He looked up and saw Ann Marie standing there."You look beautiful," he whispered once he could find his voice. When he saw her earlier in the day, she was wearing her usual Friday apparel: comfortable jeans, a nice t-shirt and sneakers. After the final bell, she replaced the t-shirt with a thin cable-knit turtle neck. You must be really tired." I slowly walked over to him, biting my bottom lip and rolling my fingers along the wooden table. He said nervously, "Christy... what... what are you doing?" I walked quicker towards him and lent in for a kiss, but at the last minute I turned down and lightly bit his neck. I whispered, "What do you want?" He replied, "I just came for your Dad's work receipts." I stopped suddenly, "Take them to him then, don't keep him waiting." He looked at me very disappointed and. Into the silence, I continued in a reasonable tone, saying, "When I saw the number, I thought I was getting a call from a friend about our lunch date. Friends can cancel lunch dates. That's okay." After a short pause, she quietly said, "Um, okay. I'm stuck with a customer an hour away, and I feel bad about cancelling. I feel like I should be punished." "If I had received a call from my Pet," I said gently, "I would have reminded her that breaking away from a customer or speeding to keep a date. Since this Companion was described as someone older and highly trained the others consider it unlikely for the man to have been your nephew.”“I sure put out enough suggestive comments to stir a reaction from Kyle, but never got a twitch. I thought he might know something from the way he reacted to my trying to claim the house, but I later realized it was a reaction to the news of my brother’s suicide and my insensitive manner in trying to locate the portal. I have to admit I botched that part.