I’ll teach you to take it apart and clean it later. Unless I can get Warlock to do it.’ he muttered the last bit to himself. ‘Warren has a nickn...me, huh?’ she asked, taking the Sig. ‘More a contraction. Warren Browning Locke.’ Leer answered distractedly. ‘Warren Locke. Warlock.’ Maria put in helpfully. ‘I got it, thanks. That’s cool.’ ‘What about the long guns?’ Leer asked, businesslike. ‘Um… the first one… smaller and lighter than the others. Feel like I can control it better.’ Leer nodded. '"Mom, do you want to come here for Memorial Day?'"Well, I don't know. We wouldn't want to... you know... '"Mom, Lucy and Sam are coming, and so are Dan Sidney and his girl Consuela Hermanos. There's another couple coming, too. Friends of ours from San Francisco, Mei-Ling and Jimmy Lin and their two little kids. It'll be a little like New Year's, but if you'd like to come... '"Anne, if it's like New Year's we'll come and never leave. Thanks, I was hoping you'd say that.'"Next time you want to. He wished he had something relatively good to tell her but didn’t. She stepped closer to him. He didn’t expect her to do anything at all. He never expected her to be in the same room for that matter while he worked. However she walked right up to him. She walked close enough to him that he could feel her breath on his face almost. And out of nowhere, the petite and very pretty woman smiled, looking deep into his eyes. “You really believe I’m that pretty of a woman?” she said. He wasn’t sure how. Then, I grabbed her wrists, hearing her gasp as I pinned them to the wall. I was possessed, primal. I didn’t know if I was scaring her or exciting her at that point, until she spoke to me. ‘Show me,’ she panted. ‘Show me what it’s like for me to be in your fantasies …’ Hearing that made me come to my senses for a moment. My eyes had lit up with excitement as I gazed into the sparkling eyes of the most beautiful girl I knew. ‘You’re so amazing,’ I whispered. ‘I want you so badly.’ ‘I want you.