She arrived without calling ahead, and with no fanfare. She had a week before she needed to be in Kansas City to find an apartment and get ready for m...d school. She stopped at the Chumley manor first, though no one in her family knew that. She thanked them again and they kept her there for over an hour as she described what their scholarship had meant to her.She left stunned. No student loans for medical school would be necessary, if she agreed to come back to Granger and practice medicine. . a womans voice giving out to herself for being stupid.She was in a full blown rant about how she should have stayed on level ground, taking on this hill after her accident was too much, too soon. Obviously she had been hurt in some fashion and was on the road to recovery. He listened for a while and smiled to himself, she sounded pretty feisty and he liked that.He was thinking too on the layout of the rocks and wondered where he could get a look without getting caught. He decided on crawling. “Come on, I have an expense account, so it is on me.” I saw Deb nod, so I agreed. We all climbed into his car and we stopped at a nice steakhouse. Now steaks are not something I had often anymore, it was insanely expensive out in town, and they served it maybe two times a month in the chow hall. And the three of us sat and talked, with Riku being curious as how we met.He seemed surprised we were not really dating, but I had dated her roomie the year before. And that she was an aircraft. Only, it was a trap that I just hadn’t figured out as yet because it was all new to me and outside my area of expertise.My Kate was visibly beaming with pride at my “normal” role in the scheme of things.She constantly made small talk with the other church-going town residents like she was not a cigar-puffing business woman when it came to dickering rates for various kinky acts of carnal depravity. I was certain those subjects were seldom discussed by any of those other ladies when Sunday rolled.