. I was wondering if you were free tonight?"He smiled at her response. "Seven o'clock ... I'll take you out for dinner ... yes both of you ... okay si... o'clock then? Okay love you too ... bye."The idea of spending a little time with his sister and his nephew melted away his bad humour and he settled down to do some work.An hour later he strode back across the room and pulled open the door again.Iris was thumping her own keyboard, typing up the reports that he had dictated to her that. I had really been there and done that and didn't want to play that silly game any more. I explained this to the lady how I felt before I married her, it seems she didn't believe me. I even told the other three ladies who all basically looked at me as if I'd grown another head and said, "Oh yeah, sure." It was much later that I learnt they had been actively scouting to bring another lady into the fold to take up an available timeslot they'd wanted to fill. When my wife and they later discovered. I was just finishing the sidewalks when I saw Greg pilot the red monster across the alley to start on George's driveway. I remembered our neighbor telling me he could do his driveway himself, but he never refused help from either of us.Greg started at the alley end while George worked up at the garage. I was almost done cleaning up the spots the blower had missed on our driveway when I saw George clutch his chest and drop to his knees in the snow.Greg waded through the deep snow and knelt down. Liz shot Anthony a frown but he only grinned at her and she huffed before walking over to her dresser. She grabbed a large knife that was almost big enough to be a sword. She gripped the haft tightly and closed her eyes and her face scrunched up cutely in concentration. "What...," Anthony began but stopped talking as the blade began to glow. She opened her eyes and they were a milky white like all of the color and her pupils were missing. She placed the blade of the large knife just above the.