The Austins, father and daughter, Gene and Cathy, weren’t weekly dinner guests in our loft, but they were regulars. Good company, good people.Gene i... in his 40s, younger than my father, but they worked out of the same police division for nine years. Until Gene finished law school at night, passed the bar and joined a downtown law firm that specialized in mergers, acquisitions, corporate takeovers. Yawn.Except that some of their high toned clients found themselves in ethical, if not criminal,. It was now Friday afternoon, and Lisa would have just finished with her final exam. What had I done? And what was I going to do? I was sure that Lisa was expecting me to come to her last night, to support her in her preparation for her last final as we had planned. She would want to know where I had been. What had I been doing? How was the party? Why had I not come to her?I made up every elaborate excuse possible in the known universe, from staying away in her best interest to being kidnapped. “That shut you up,” Giles laughed, “Actually the job is to look after my three kids during the summer holidays.“Spoil sport, you’ve made me all squiffy now,” Ellie sighed.“Sure, a joke a joke, a wind up is wind up,” Giles ventured.Ellie gently eased her knees apart, “I’m squiffy OK,” she said awkwardly, “Look.”The wet patch in her panties was very obvious.“I was joking,” Giles insisted, “Winding you up.”“Then why are you hard?” Ellie asked.“You flashed your knickers,” Giles explained.“Do you. In fact, he would have always sworn that part of another store was behind this wall. He decided he might as well go in, new stores were always something to see.He pulled open the door, triggering a bell over his head. Was this the only store in the mall with a door on the front of it? He was pretty sure it was. Entering, it looked like an antique store that he'd been in before. It was dimly lit inside and smelled faintly of must. A rather large dog looked up at him as he came in, then put.