You two didn't do all that good of a job the last time you broke into a house. I'd do this by myself, but I'm not sure what Connie thinks of me. After...all, I brought her to this place."The two women saw something in Max's face that caused them to back down. Max's 'going to work' face and bearing was an unknown wonder of the world. In the Teams the story was told of a mission where a suspect died from fright from Max's look when he heard the man confess to blowing up a bus full of elementary. He looked me over appraisingly for a very long moment. It was beginning to get awkward. I had managed to tune out that I just stripped in front of him but standing there naked in silence was making it weird.When he opened his mouth to speak it felt as if everything froze except my heart, which felt ready to beat out of my chest. Frank was now the only guy to have seen me fully nude since I was young. He was the first to appraise me, about to make a comment.“You’re going to have to do something. I had been married before, but although Cheryl had had a long-term relationship, they had never tied the knot. He had apparently kept promising that one day he would ask, but never did. Eventually she gave up waiting.Both of us had been single for over a year before we met up, and although we met on a dating site, it was literally love at first sight. I had thought that we would be together forever. Apparently, that was not to be.I sat on the stool by the dresser and watched her sleep.She was. She’d been complaining about aches and pains, and he’d said she should soak in a deep bathtub, because that would make her feel less heavy. She’d said she couldn’t get in and out of a bathtub without help. He’d offered to help her.And now, suddenly, here she was, almost naked with a man again. She hadn’t been naked with a man in almost nine months. She couldn’t help but remember that being naked with a man nine months ago had led her to the situation she was now in. Her baby wasn’t due for.