He felt sweat beading on his face, 'What do I say?' he couldn't just tell them that they happened to find a wreckage of an otherworldly vehicle that h...ppened to have highly developed bio-engineering devices on it and the took what they could of understand of it and built this wondrous machine with... somewhat varying results. It worked alright but some subjects... turned out in a very bizarre way and had to be put down. The other's were kept in facilities, but the success rate was such that the. She couldn’t let that happen. It was becoming clear what Jeff was playing at and what he wanted and all bargaining power seemed to be rushing from her fingers like grains of sand. But she gave one final pushback. ‘Jeff, you can’t! Why would-? You’re in the picture, too! Did you forget that? You think once Jessie sees that she might be able to figure out that-? Jeff cut her off with a renewed surge of confidence. He knew he had her. Her weak protests were insignificant. ‘Rachel, stop. So. When Valentine's drew near, he tried to give me a little money to pay me back for the trip. I told him he ought to use the money instead to buy her something for Valentine's. Even though he objected, he eventually saw it my way.We worked the evening shift on Valentine's night and, with very little probing on my part, he anxiously described to me in detail about the little see through nightie he had bought her. We both got off about 11:30 at night and as I left work, I couldn't think of anything. John was now not only tired, but a bit tipsy and he made some remark about having two more cheeks to kiss which, as out-of-it tired and now tipsy as we now were, we found hilarious.John ordered a catered meal by one of the best restaurants in the area, which was delivered about 6:30 that evening. After eating, and killing a bottle of wine, Jennifer and John's paralegal announced they had to go home to their husbands. They were obviously too much under the influence to drive, so we stuck them in.