A small laugh greeted my ears, as my skirt began to fall, now that the wind had a new path. As I could see again, I blushed, for there was Ron, stand...ng there with a glass of wine, and wearing that same long, red satin robe. My heart skipped a beat, and I couldn’t talk.“Why hello, Wendy!” Ron greeted me, after a long silence of awkwardness. “Please come in… I am glad to see you.” His voice warmly welcomed me, and he stepped aside, my feet flowing him in, and my skirt finally falling, and. " Relax, Cindy, your bag is in the trunk. I got it when I was getting the car out. Whether there is any money in it, I couldn't say." Randy C Harper, please let me get my bag." I stopped when there was a good place to pull off the highway. I got a smile when the bag was handed to my passenger. She sat there and counted the money. When she finished she stuffed the glove compartment full of bills. "There is fifteen thousand dollars in there. I kept twenty-one hundred and a little bit out.. " Laura grins and looking at the Austrian tattletale says, "Katy, canyou please take off your shoelaces and tie Mr. Jefferson up?" Now that puzzledme. I'm a pretty big guy. Two shoelaces weren't going to hold me, I thought,grinning inwardly. Katy takes off her shoelaces and stands in front of me thinking. Sittingdown, she wraps a shoelace tightly around one of my balls in a slipknot tighteninguntil she had pure marble. She does the same with the second shoelace and says, "Ok,Laura, let him go.. It may be that she is ready to explore something outside the day-to-day and that would work in his favor. Seventy thirty he thought. Seven out of ten she would be there and she would be looking to see if he came back. He walked into the shop, kept his eyes focused on the counter, and got in line. She wasn’t at the same table, the one by the door. That didn’t mean she wasn’t in the shop. He waited patiently until he could order the same black coffee. He turned and walked down the counter to wait.