Everybody was there in the meeting room by 9:06 PM, so the meeting was called to order. They took care of some routine old business, and the leader st...rted to lay out the jobs for the next week. He had spoken only a few words when Jack suddenly appeared to stage-left of the podium. His sudden appearance startled every gang member in the room. Most people recognized Jack and all of them knew of his murder. It was debatable as to which was more surprising, his translucent appearance or the fact. He would do very well, Laura had thought. She had been a widowfor a year and didn't like it - no sex, not having a male's company,protection and escort really sucked. Laura was so fucking tired of notbeing invited to a lot of important functions because she was nowunmarried.?? Harry found himself in bed that night with a horny female. She wasbeautiful, sexy and very passionate. Sex was fantastic, the best he'dever had, and before he knew it the professor was in love. Three weekslater they were. As the gas discharged the gel inside Sarah's mouth was cooled and shrank back to its original size. Harry prised the mouthpiece from Sarah's lips to her relief and popped the device in his pocket. Sarah coughed, spluttered, worked her aching jaw, and looked sheepish but said nothing. "Well when we get them it looks like you'll be able to hang on to them," said Harry. "We've got some files to go through with you, possible pick ups. Like we agreed." Yeah sure," said the Emir, "but I've got. ”I looked over at Alex, who’d walked in a moments after Jonathan and Douglass had shown up, probably so she could chase them out of the room if they stayed too long.“Will I be out by then?”“Maybe,” she said. “You’re healing well, faster than I could have ever dreamed, but you still need more time. You’d probably heal faster if you weren’t being interrupted so much by all these visits.”“These visits are the only thing keeping me sane.”She just harrumphed at me.“Just keep me in the loop on what’s.