She had a good lunch with her husband and he was off to check out some things and she went back to the beach. She’d never been a good swimmer so she...kind of tiptoed around up to her waist until a young man came over to her and said, “I don’t see you swimming. Don’t you know how?”“Oh my gosh!” She thought, “what should I say?” But then the truth blurted out, “I’m not very good and it’s been a long time so I’m kind of scared.”The young man introduced himself as Adam and said that he taught. Modern times, dear lady!It is an unfortunate situation, but every cloud has a silver lining, and I am willing to purchase your entire stock. This would admittedly be at knockdown prices, but you would be able to lay your hands on a large pile of ready cash, instead of sitting on furniture that is not readily shifting into the hands of your normal clientele, or so I am informed. Shall we at least start by having a look at your stock?" Well, I have no objections to you looking at my stock, but. ’ Todd grinned as Bettina left. She’s good, he thought to himself. Not good enough to break the biggest story of the century to this point, but she’s good. Part 13 – Multiple Lines of Inquiry I knew that I did not even have the night in order to get this problem nipped in the bud. I had called ahead to the Station and put out some orders, and now they’d come to fruition. The contingent in front of City Hall was fairly large as the sun dipped behind the building on its way to the western. Shes halfway across the world and we have been talking online, on and off, for almost thirteen years, but she and I have sadly never – thus far – met in the flesh. I will never say never, Rain. Never ,) It started off with just another one of those cyber-sex meetings between completely anonymous, dying-to-get-off individuals in an Internet card game room (I was actually in there in all innocence – she jumped on me like the horny MILF she was (is) and left me quite, um, drained) but we kept.