She was alone in the shop, about to undress herself behind a curtain — what was he thinking? The boutique was open, anyone could walk in, but was it...safe? At a subconscious level she made a calculation, the distance from the counter to the changing booth was not short. He would have to lock the door and then approach; she would hear him and be ready.Serena crossed to the booth and drew the curtain. She hung the dresses up on the hook on the wall, paused for a moment, and then carefully peeped. We gathered in his home cloaked with the easiest kind of glamour, invisibility. One of the things we were told to listen for was any thoughts of active enablers. Anne watched as he signed on to a site on the dark web. She knew what to look for: four groups of numbers separated by periods and his ID and password.With Anne standing close and cloaked in invisibility our target, the soon to be the late Peter Jelson watched a video of a pre-adolescent girl stripping suggestively and being massaged. As long as you're okay with it, I'm okay with it." Wow," Brad said. "It's awesome that you're so cool about it." No worries. So what's the big surprise?" I asked. "Elise hasn't told me anything." Sorry my friend," Shawn piped up. "We're all sworn to secrecy. I don't even know all the details, but I'm sure you're going to love it. Elise seems really psyched up." No Emily?" I asked."She's still sleeping," Matt grinned. "I think we wore her out last night. Just give her a call before you pick her. “Does Elaine love you?”“We were very close, but when I left this morning, she made it clear that we can’t meet again.”“Why, what happened?”“I got your message and said that I needed to go.” I explained how Elaine had said that she didn’t want to be a ‘part-time lover.’ “While I love you and you and I have each other, she doesn’t want to see me intimately anymore.”Maggie considered this for a moment. “I understand how she must feel. She sounds very sensible and caring. I think I would like.