You’re the best father in the world!’ managed Gwen as she hugged her father. ‘The helicopter’s waiting for us by the park. Let’s get going,�...� urged Kate as she hugged her mother and opened the front door. ‘Look at all of the reporters out in the street! It looks like the circus is in town.’ ‘That’s one more reason why we need Asgard,’ observed Gwen as she carried her bag out the door. ‘We have to get going. Dad, you drive. I’m so wrought up I’d probably run over a few of these idiots.’ Ted. He owned the house less than a month and there was so much to do. Time wasn't an issue though. Taking a buy-out from his employer of over twenty years, the severance package was a deal dreams were made of. He received full salary and benefits for eighteen months. That would carry him to his fifty-fifth birthday and retirement age. He also exercised stock options allowing him to buy the house in the White Mountains for cash. The house was his escape from the summer desert heat. But his wife. The next picture was of him alone on the beach flying his kite. He quickly flipped to the next one, which was of him, fully dressed again, setting up his kite. The next was of him walking in the surf. He turned the page again, to see a drawing of a sailboat. The next, and last, was a sea gull. Suddenly he realized that he was looking at them backwards. The drawing of him walking in the surf was the first one, and they ended with the one today of him in his chair. Interesting, he thought. He. That’s the wife I know and love. You are so beautiful. I don’t know why I deserve someone like you,” Roberts said, giving the girl a comforting smile.Cindy was beside herself. The smile her handsome professor had given her melted her heart, warming her insides and making her willing to do whatever he asked. This was the type of man she’d always dreamed of, fantasized about as she’d lain in bed at night, her hand between her legs, her fingers bringing her just a teasing glimpse of the pleasure.