.certainly filled out in all the right places. It was her dress sense which caught my eye. She showed a nice cleavage in a dark brown suit, white blou...e and high heels. I asked myself if they were stockings or dreaded tights. She had an engagement ring on her finger so that scubbered that idea. I would never find out. A few weeks later I called in for a few drinks after work and she was working the bar. It was midweek and very quiet. I was sitting at the bar and she was stocking some shelves. I have been the deputy sherifffor the Middle Water Texas department for the last 8 years. Middle Water isa small town near New Mexico. Small town doesn't really cover it. We have atotal population of 43 with a police department of 2 people. Downtown, thereis a restaurant, a liquor store / general store. Being a small cattle town,there is hardly any need for a sheriff and deputy sheriff so other than oldTimmy Jenkins shooting off his shotgun when he is drunk, my job consists oftrying to give out. "Imagine that," he remarked out loud.Walking to the apse, he ran his fingers over the plasterwork. A tune came to mind and he unthinkingly began to hum it, preoccupied as he was with the whole Daphne dilemma.What an awful world this was, he mused. As bad as things on Earth could be, this place—in all things that counted—was far worse. The plight of women alone here was damning enough. As far as he could tell, this Chirurgen had broken no laws by what he'd done—so outing him to the Duke was a. Need a ride. Will you come ….get me?” She was practically incoherent in the receiver. This wasn’t the first time, shit it wasn’t even the fourth or fifth time anymore that his mom had done this. Seemed almost every few weeks he was picking her drunk ass up at the bar to bring her home. Tonight especially he wasn’t in the mood for this shit. He shot a look to Karen still kneeling in the same spot and cursing that his mom called and killed the mood to fuck his bitch. “Better get dressed babe, I.