We talked and talked. He told me that he thought I was the sexiest girl he'd ever known. We got up early and went for a run, and then we stopped for b...eakfast at the restaurant next door. It's a nice place, and they made us sit on stools at the counter. You should have seen the way the customers looked at the way sweat had soaked our shirts. Anyway, my legs were back to normal after the run and I was in a good mood. We started clowning around, sharing our toast, things like that. I noticed we'd. She wanted to try Daddy again, but they were never alone long enough. There was always someone in the way, especially her mother, who seemed ridiculously attentive to him since her return. She even suspected that they were fucking again. And to make matters worse, Joan Wagner, her matron of honor, spent every minute of every practice flirting with her father. He seemed to like it, too, and Linda was burning with jealousy.Joan was the same age as Linda, only very blonde and unusually full. ”Ariel shook her head.Hulda again met Ariel’s eyes. “I joined because it’s a job. A job I’m good at. Are ya gonna try an tell me I don’t get to do that?”“No, but—”“But nothing. Ya said you respected me. Want to be like me.”“Yes, but I didn’t know.”“Didn’t know that life’s hard? Didn’t know that ephemerals ain’t gonna be around forever? Didn’t know that sometimes it ain’t easy for us?”“But...”“Ma! Can ya come here an help me pound it into Ariel that she ain’t responsible for the hard things in. Just a short drive from this airport is an exclusive hunting ranch available to only a few select officers within our company. I can’t give its exact location, but I can tell you this area is only a couple of hours drive from the southern United States /Mexican border. Limos from this airfield come and go to this ranch at all hours of the day and night. The ranch is a sprawling complex of buildings. Although I am not a hunter myself, I have been told this ranch has some of the best.