"Masters, the Grand Master asked that you attend him in his private parlor," she told the two of us."Is something wrong?" Gretchen asked the young wom...n in fear."I don't think so, Gretchen," the girl answered. "The Grand Master only asked that his Grandsons see him before they left." Gretchen looked relieved at this news."Get everyone back to the conference room when you are finished eating," I told Shannon. "Hopefully this won't take long. I don't know what Grandfather has in mind." Pat and I. " Oh, I'm not saying it shouldn't happen again," said Mrs. McCormick quickly."I don't understand. Are you saying it should happen again?" Well, my daughter is sweet and pretty and sexy and you're only human." The woman giggled."Devon is all that but I sincerely doubt if there's anything human about me. I mean, it was so wrong of me." You're being too hard on yourself. Devon is absolutely thrilled with you and I am too. I was just teasing about being angry with you." No, Mrs. McCormick. My. And yet, those thoughts persisted. Not even a liveperformance from Layne and Jerry at my house themselves could have drownout the thumping of my heart, as the events of last night looped in mymind. As I scrubbed off the remaining glitter from my fingers inacetone, I drifted back to why I'd worn it in the first place.Rich. God damn it Rich, why did you have to make that stupid dare!? Whydidn't you laugh me out of house of home, and instead encouraged myreckless behavior? Why did you have to be. She got out of her car in high dudgeon and stormed over to Jack. ‘BASTARD!’ she screamed, and caught him with a full blooded slap across the face as he straightened from loading the clubs. She was about to hit him again when he pushed her away. She stumbled backwards and landed heavily on her rump. Peter had just got out of the car and moved to restrain her. ‘You bastard, you did that deliberately!’ she screamed again. By this time the children had appeared with their bags. Jack ruefully rubbed.