None who truly loved their pets ever left them outside alone to be taken. It had not just been the missing pets, it was also the missing wild animals....There was hardly ever a squirrel or a bird in the tree and never a stray cat or dog. Our town has never even had a dog catcher. It was as if all the animals just knew to stay away or where taken away, which after that night I knew was a little of both. My dad was no exception to keeping his beagles inside and he never left them alone outside. I. ”“Gross! Let’s change the subject! What are you doing for the rest of the week?”“Just hanging out. Lunches and dinners with friends, Swimming and breakfast with you. The usual stuff. We’ll head home on Sunday morning.”“Stephie is really special to you, isn’t she?”“Yes, she is. Like I said, I like how things are going and don’t want to change them and have no plans to change them.”“But what about Jennifer?”“What about Jennifer? We’re friends, and I hope we’ll be very close friends again. Beyond. "You went and found that fucking Lenny Bowers, and then you fucking fired his lazy, incompetent ass?" Jerry looked up from the pan he was stirring, and he laughed boisterously, fully. It was a short lived, barking kind of laugh, but I knew it was an honest laugh, not something he'd do to be polite, or to curry favor with a boss. He nodded his head that I had guessed right, then he went right back to working on what he was doing. I left him to it, as happy with him, as he was with himself. I was. ”Tanya twisted round to see.Incapable of stopping herself, Iona reached out a hand and brushed the bits of wood and dirt off the material. “You’re lucky. You’ve not marked the dress” Iona was suddenly aware of what she was doing. Her hand was travelling over the perfect contours of her friend’s rear. The covering layer of lace easily gliding over the thin white silk beneath, her hand unstoppably followed the valley between her cheeks. Tanya trembled under her touch. So thin was the material.