"Yes, why?" replied Vickie.The two lay in bed, naked, taking a short respite between sexual marathons. Donnie Seward was a senior computer program ana...yst whose company did business with Andrea's."How do you feel about her?" he asked."Well, I know she's very competitive." Ruthless might be a better word." Why do you say that?" I've seen her operate. First she does you favors, gets you indebted to her, then comes the squeeze. She makes it all sound so reasonable, but before long you're diverting. E.X. banquet, my memory of it was tinged by sadness. Because, in celebrating the work we'd done, the book had also been closed on my job. After having tasted the independence of self-support, I abruptly found myself without a job and two children to support.Without Jason and the rest of the S.E.X. staff to buck me up, I quickly became depressed. Before I knew it I was feeling sorry for myself... reverting back to my old ways as a meek, scared suburban housewife.Determined not to bring myself. When I came in to the living room where she was, she had the TV on watching some movie and we just sat down and watched. We had wafers soft drinks. (I don’t drink alcohol) During the commercials, we would chat a little. One commercial was a very sexy commercial and one discussion led to another and We were talking about sex and our age and the fear of AIDS. I told her that I had not been with anyone for over five years and she said that she had not been with anyone since her husband had died. Her first impression was that the being must be a first cousin to an alligator, although if the parts were taken separately, they were only a vague resemblance to the Earth beast. The being stood mostly upright with a slight lean forward. It didn’t have an alligator head — exactly — but its head was somewhat flattened and elongated with its eyes, as well as its ears, sitting atop the sloping head.There was no scale of reference, so she couldn’t tell how tall it was, but she felt they were at.