Then he called work to tell his foreman that he had the flu. When he hung up, Linda had a trapped feeling in the pit of her stomach. She felt caged.He... feeling of desperation only increased when her father came to the table for his breakfast. He was wearing only his shorts and sporting an obvious hard-on in them. He practically posed before his daughter when he saw her eyes gravitate to his crotch. Linda swallowed nervously and tore her gaze away. His crotch was so bulging! He had such hefty. .wistful.“It’s who you are,” she explained simply. “‘Red’ is your persona, the wealthy businessman who deals in crime, the secret benefactor, the mysterious playboy-- and it’s a cute nickname,” she added, “but it isn’t who you really are.”“And who am I?” he asked her honestly.“That is something I think it will take a lifetime to learn.”“Hmmm….” he acknowledged thoughtfully.After a few moments, she spoke again. “I do know quite a lot about who you are already, though.”“Oh?” he replied.Lizzie. “No, I’m just a figment of your imagination,” I told him. “Of course I’m up. I smelled the food and my mouth tasted like ashes from an old wood fire.”“What the hell did you do at that place last night?” Ed wanted to know. “The noon news showed pictures. It looked like World War III. They said one room was incinerated and that a number of Diversified execs died from a combination of chlorine gas and being shot.”“The CEO, a fat guy, had flame throwers guarding his boardroom, and chlorine gas. He. .. ??Laura found the idea of a lawyer doing that amusing, then questioned my desire to marry. I explained that I thought it stupid to try to superimpose human emotions over equine ones. No I didn’t really want to marry a horse, mostly because I can’t imagine a stallion accepting the concept of marriage, let alone monogamy, it’s certainly not natural to horses. I wasn’t even sure it appealed to me.Ok, yes, a woman wanting to mate with a horse isn’t natural to either species, nor would it be a.