That time finally comes, though, when Geoffrey tells Anne he'll be outside while she talks with the therapist. Anne doesn't say two words."Do you not ...ant to talk about Mr. Bruno?" asks the therapist, and Anne shakes her head, not looking up. "Is there anything you'd feel comfortable talking about?"There's a long silence. The therapist neither fidgets nor looks away. Finally Anne says it, but in voice so quiet the therapist has to lean forward to hear her."Geoffrey." Why?" More silence. The. Maybe we can find out where he took them." It was back to Aurora," Rowlf told him. "I could smell the air of our home valley." What'd you three run into," Charley greeted them. "You look shook." We ran into Mr. Steve Jordan," Phil answered. "He beat it back to his base on Aurora, and he's got the women with him." So he thinks he got away, huh?" Charley cackled gleefully. "We'll see about that. Gimme a couple of hours to fix this here portal, and I'll drop you anywhere on Aurora you want." Just. In fact I’m sure that’s what he thought, erroneously thought,” she said.“Fuck!” he said. “He may never come back now. We have to fix this and fix it now or it’s over for all of us. Claire, he’s just not ready to face up to any negativity."“How did he get home? Surely he didn’t just walk back thirty-five miles to the row,” he said.“I don’t know. He just walked out. I don’t know how he could have walked. If he had some money maybe he took a cab, but I just don’t know, really,” she said.“If he did. OK, so she was having sex, but I'd have been more worried if she hadn't been. Only the new underwear surprised me.And of course, as my fingers felt the crotch, it confirmed the presence of what every mother learns to identify; the tell-tale evidence of dried cum. So be it; my little girl is a grown woman, and sex is part of life. I wondered who the lucky young man was. I continued to sort, but I put all the panties to one side. Then I examined them. Five of the seven had those tell-tale stains.