Her kiss turned hungry, her tongue entered my mouth and suddenly my top was pulled over my head. I only broke the kiss for a second to extricate my ar...s from the garment, then I pressed my body, now nude from the waist up, against hers again. The skirt sailed to the floor a few seconds later, and then hands were gripping my buttocks and rhythmically pressing my crotch against hers. ‘I want you so much,’ she whispered into my ear between little bites at my neck, ‘I want to have your naked body. "Suzanne came in to the sunroom and wanted to know what we were discussing. I excused myself, leaving John to explain it to her.Boy, did I dodge a bullet, I thought. Making a trip to all the sales offices was the last thing I wanted to do. It would take me away from Karen for an entire week. Was I a manipulator or what?Karen called as she had promised. "The gate is open. I'll be waiting for you," she said.I looked in on K.O. before I left. He was holding the soccer ball with his left hand, and. There was an 80 pound punching bag hanging from a rafter at one end of the room, and a speed bag mounted on the wall at the other end. In the middle was a kicking dummy, fastened to a stand bolted to the floor. A Karate gi hung on a peg beside the speed bag, with a black belt casually looped over a hook next to it. A pair of grappling gloves lay on the bench of a weight set against one wall. She wondered, briefly, why she remembered they were called grappling gloves.An examination of the gi. "I," He hesitated, and gently wiped away the tears streaming down her cheeks. "Sergeant Mel, she explained it better than I can. She said we need to 'start as we mean to go on.' It was the day before yesterday." He waved at the window, his arm silhouetted against the blinds. The moaning of the dead had faded, but there were occasional far away gunshots and the sounds of shuffling feet. "What's happening out there changed everything, and some people will do anything they want because they think.