And all the bad boys are standin’ in the shadows. And the good girls are home with broken hearts. Now I’m free! Free fallin’! Yeah I’m free! F...ee fallin’ Whoa-oo-Whoa…”] Fraud Department: “Fraud Department, this is Lucy.” Me: “Hi, Lucy. I’d like to report a stolen card.” After five minutes of going over questions about timelines and possible culprits, Lucy had one final question: “Would you be willing to testify in court?” Testify in court? That meant that when they found Jada and Sharane, all. As Elizabeth had asked, I had waited until Jennifer was outside with Maggie then unwrapped the package she’d given me and discovered a box of condoms with a note – unsigned – saying simply ‘Be careful’. I found a place where I could hide the box and said nothing.At first, Jennifer came and joined me in my bed on the floor in front of the heater. One evening, Jennifer told me she’d had enough of sleeping on the hard floor and that ‘WE’ were going to sleep in the bed behind the curtain. I. I stayed up finishing my nightly ritual. Watch a war movie or two, surf some porn sites looking for new scenes, then spending some quality time with Mrs. Palmer and her five daughters. The only difference between tonight and the other nights was that the house was 92°F and about 4,000% humidity. Welcome to Florida in August.It was so hot in my house because the AC crapped out early in the day. I called the AC guy I knew from the VFW Post I belonged to. He promised someone would be at my house. That and the one man he had trusted. Trust! Now there was a crime if there ever had been one. One lowly man had undone the great betrayer. He should have known better than to trust anyone or anything. That one slip had been his undoing. Of course it had taken a hundred thousand years but what did that matter. One man started it and an errant mutation had finished it. One man had created a good deity to balance out his evil. The masses had clung to it like a life ring in the chaos of their.