She took a deep breath: to hell with it."Mr Emerton?" He looked up. "What time would you like to pick me up?"In her bedroom, staring at the clothes ha...ging limply in her closet, the cool bravado that had claimed her as she agreed to the date vanished. In its place indecision, doubt and outright terror took hold. It seemed painfully obvious to her now, away from the office and that lovely man, that it was all another twisted joke, something for the office beautiful people to laugh at during. "Another jolt and another convulsion. Flat line."Come on Sam, I'm not going to let you go again," a nurse said."Go to four hundred joules," the doctor said."Charging to four hundred joules."Beep."Clear."A bigger jolt and a bigger convulsion."We've got a pulse." Come on Sam." Pulse is getting stronger." Don't you dare do that to me again young man or I will be verypissed. You and me are going to have a long talk when you comeround," the nurse said."Sister, I've never seen you get so involved. We got a beautiful smile from her as we slid into seats at the table. There were fresh cups of coffee for each of us already poured.Marcia said, “This is a day we could sit around and worry about a lot of things, or a day we can celebrate the sunshine and the fact that someone’s mother has taken steps to protect herself from some threat. I think we have every reason to be upbeat.”Ash smiled, “I agree and there’s some irony in the whole situation.”“How’s that?” Marcia asked as she started to. ’ She didn’t have the soft southern drawl that was so normal to his ears. Tom stood up behind him and took a bow. ‘Thank you darlin’, nice to see a beautiful woman with some taste in this town at last. Now tell me you got an older sister who is just as hot and twice as horny as you, and I will be in love.’ Candy laughed. ‘Actually she’s got four. Dani’s older sister Kate just bought that old road house out on the old highway. She’s gonna fix it up in to a real club. Got a big settlement from.