I didn't want to be buying him all new equipment. Equipment he would use to repeat the build later. I planned to keep a close eye on the costs."Come b...ck tomorrow about noon we will have the water out of the lock. Then it will be sitting on timbers so we can start to secure the hull and get rid of the rust. Some guys with welders and torches will start securing the containers to the deck then we start putting the good shit in," Ev said."How old is the lock," I asked. I was just curious."There. I also included the child services personnel who had taken part in Lily's kidnapping. I didn't want them - or their families - to be left totally high and dry. But I wanted some revenge. I knew that my aunty didn't fully agree with me on that, and that is why I wanted some external lawyers to take care of this. All those people would also be facing criminal charges, due to their activities, but I wanted to make sure that they would suffer financially, too. Hell, I had, and by quite a lot.Only. I too was content. I got to see those feet on a daily basis, and I revelled in some perverse sense of fulfilment by being her secret pedicure funder. It was naughty, and so wrong, but I liked it. It made me tingle inside to know I was the most powerful person in that courtroom, but the newbie court typist had me paying for her pedicures. It was all teetering on the line of acceptability. I hadn't done too much that had crossed the line professionally. Sure, it was embarrassing paying for her. On my return, she and I assembled the boys’ beds and set their box spring bases and mattresses onto the frames. The humidity had increased due to the rain and, without central air-conditioning, we began to perspire. We walked yp the stairs to her bedroom to get her bed put together. Her dress was beginning to cling to the skin of her legs showing them to be long and muscular. She unbuttoned the top and bottom of her dress slightly for freedom of movement and seemed to show no embarrassment.