The NCAA was finally lessening its grip on summer jobs for athletes so maybe I could go that route.Everyone seemed to think I'd be worth millions in a...couple of years but I wasn't so sure. In fact, I wasn't even sure if I wanted to be.I must have been restless because Bailey snuggled up beside me."You OK, babe?" she asked.I told her I was fine, I was just worrying about things I shouldn't be worrying about. Then it hit me. I was doing the same thing with my finances as she was doing with her. I then remembered that a neighbour of mine worked in the pharmacy in the same shopping precinct as "Playthings," so I decided to try my luck at cadging a lift. Her house was only about ten doors away from my apartment so I strolled up to her front door and rang the bell. I knew her name was Wendy because she wore one of those badges on her tunic. When she answered the door I said, "Hi Wendy, I’m sorry to be nuisance but my car’s out of action and I was wondering if there’s any chance you could. ...My kids are all out of the house, graduated college and on their own. Mywife is a professional business woman and works every day. I have my ownbusiness and get to travel by car a lot a few days at a time. This givesme more time to dress and be my alter ego. I have two travel bags I takeon road trips and two others stashed so no one could find them back athome. I only take them out when my wife is a way for a few days while I'mat home. Ebay is a good friend of mine and I can buy lots of. Nick watched them and connected with them and found his arm drawing tighter and tighter around Arwen until it could be called nothing but an embrace.And then, meeting his eyes one more time, Pilar purposefully turned Lev to look at her so that his back was to them and his eyes met only hers. Nick felt time slow to a crawl and knew that a moment was passing that might never come again, but he felt too slow and heavy to capture it.“Come on.” Arwen laced her fingers into his and drew him away from.