”“And everything you have is from observing them outside their house?” I asked.“Yes. We are only set up for basic surveillance.”“The fact ...hat they are purposefully cutting her off from us, and then hiding that fact from her, worries me. What do we need to do, to go to the next step in surveillance?”“What do you mean by next step?” Carter asked.I knew Carter well enough by this point to know he was just being cagey. He knew exactly what I was talking about and just wanted me to come out and ask. We can both see then."I was sitting at my computer playing Raven. Ten-year-old Joey, myneighbor's kid, was seated in a chair to my right. His mother was a rotundwoman. Not at all the woman that you would have expected to have givenbirth to this beautiful boy. He was slender with straight dark blond hairand an infectious smile. I always noticed how he clung to me, stroking myarms and hugging me, causing me to become sexually excited. But I was ableto resist encouraging such contact. I. " Some things haven't changed, then," Lindsay said, making Janet smilehappily as the three women ate their food.Lindsay remained at the flat for another hour and a half, askingquestions about Janet's transition and answering questions about thehome that Janet had been forced to leave. Janet made sure to absorbevery second of the visit, committing it to memory as though it wasthe last time she would ever see Lindsay, though as the 16 year oldgirl prepared to leave, she promised that she would. I won't say the time flew by, but when everyone got plastered at thevineyard, and some of the girls decided to do another striptease, I wasnot at all keen to stop them until the manager said he would call thepolice, and I could suddenly see my afternoon's bonking under threat.Anyway, I managed to pacify him and we all got back to the Dove more orless in one piece.***'It's time to come out to play,' Alice said to my G-Belt.Over the weeks of our relationship, I had never had any chance ofguessing.