With a shrug, I started for my chair. I wouldn't mind sitting out the next dance.In the blink of an eye, Pearl's emotions went from happy to very unha...py. In an effort to determine the source of her discomfort, I spread my empathic connection to a radius of approximately five feet using Pearl's emotional signature as the center of the circle.Fuck, I muttered silently.Paul Gomez's emotional signature popped up. I stood and hurried toward Pearl. Gomez was furious. I'd never felt him as angry as. " Amen," I said reverently."When I think back on it, I don't know if Tim ever made love to me." I don't suppose it would do any good to ask you what you and mom were talking about," Cindi said later."Not a bit," I said."That's what I thought." You wouldn't want me to tell your mom what you and I talk about, would you?" No, although we haven't talked about much that was of any importance." Anything you tell me is important, Cindi." Thank you, Ed," she said, then she looked down and said, "Kate. These two friends of mine are sophisticated men of the world and the usual standard of trollop who works for me simply won't do as a companion. Consequently, Laura will be there to entertain one of the men and I want you to do the same for the other. Is that clear?" Well, not really, Sir," I answered hesitantly. "If you mean you want me to act as a hostess, no problem... but something tells me that you want rather more than that." Well, you are the bright one today, Carol, aren't you? Yes, the. "Oh dear, that thing doesn't really seem to fit you. How about we change that?" She asked, her bony old hand slowly typing in the price on the old-timey register. John smiled and decided that if she wanted to take the cover off herself and try and sell it to someone else, he wouldn't mind that at all. "That would be great, thank you." He said with a smile of his own. Just as he agreed the little bell on the register rang and the whole world started to swirl.When John blinked he found that he.