A pleasure meeting you," I coo, smiling."Care for a glass of wine." Nice to meet you too, Lauren," Dan replies squeezing my butt cheeks, awonderfully ...echerous leer in his eye. "Wine would be nice." Make yourself comfortable, hun," I say, brushing his lips once moreagainst mine and then pointing to the couch. "I'll get some."I step to the counter, watching him as he lowers his large frame withrelaxed assurance onto the sofa, and in an instant I am settling besidehim, handing him his glass, but. ” “It was different at the Institute. I don’t know if I can really explain it. But once I arrived here and had unlimited use of the chambers when not on duty, I started using them a bit more. But, well...” I wasn’t sure exactly how much I wanted to share with the counselor. The thoughts popping into my mind were thoughts that frequently occurred to me. Although when they did, I usually tried to push them out and think about other things. “...I guess after a while, the. ”“We have to have time together on Saturday night!” she said sexily.“Already factored in, Honey! The party will go from 1:00pm to 8:00pm. Bethany has a pretty long drive on Sunday, and she’ll be driving alone.”“Good!” she declared. “I mean, about the time alone, not Bethany’s drive!”We pulled into the Spencers’ driveway and parked. We went inside to find Pete and Melanie sitting on the couch, waiting for us.“What’s the plan?” I asked.“How about a sauna?” Melanie smirked.“Mel!” Pete said. You see, to understand Karla you have to know about her parents."They are the most bigoted people you could fear to meet. Narrow-minded doesn't even come close. Their weird little church group takes the prize for being the exact opposite of the happy-clapper freaks we seem to grow by the bushel hereabouts. Thou shalt not do this, that or the other. Their lives are a rigid continuation of boring rituals at their dank chapel. Joyless days year in year out, since loose talk invites visits by.