"Yeah, I promise," Ricky called.Caleb started to rise and one of the deputies grabbed his arm and hissed, "Are you nuts?"Caleb sighed before holsterin... his SIG Sauer P226 in the small of his back and saying, "Probably, but this is the only way I know to get him out of there without someone getting hurt. It'll be okay." Well, keep your mike open so we know what's going on," the deputy instructed. "Just say 'fire' if you want us to take him out."Caleb nodded before standing, pizza box in one. Ted went poker-faced. Well, he was going to meet the Medusa at some point, anyway... He stepped through the door and meticulously closed it behind him.Claudette had turned back to her mother, an anxious look on her face. "Mom, this is Ted -- he brought me home..." I see that," Charlotte Pinkersley replied flatly. "I can read a clock, too!" She stood there, taking in Claudette's state of disarray and her handful of clothing items with a jaundiced eye.Claudette decided to take another run at. She gradually separated her legs and gave Carmyn a sexy look. “So are you. You're very, very beautiful.”Carmyn’s eyebrow shot up. Dana, a complete stranger who’d roamed into the office, was flirting back and inviting her in. She couldn’t believe it.Impatient, Dana stood and walked around the desk. Her lips were moving, saying something valuable. But her words only fell upon deaf Carmyn’s ears. Her eyes were too busy sizing Dana’s lovely figure, from her silky dark hair, that encased her tanned. Or are you on your own?”“I ... we aren’t together anymore, Yvonne. Not since September. It ... it just didn’t work out.” Matti didn’t want to get into details, so he left it at that.Yvonne looked very surprised and said, “That shocks me, Matti. I thought you guys were a perfect couple, from what Dawn told me when I spoke with her on the phone. We haven’t talked recently, but now that you tell me this, it might explain why she didn’t sound very happy when I last spoke to her. In fact, we didn’t.