The answer caught you so far off guard, you nearly fell over when you opened the door.Anna was friend from college. You two weren't really close, but ...ou had several classes together, you'd sit together in the lunch room and you did hang out from time to time. She's actually quite beautiful, but she had a boyfriend, so you never tried to get with her. When you both graduated, you found out she was heading to the west coast to try living in California, while you were heading to New York. You. ” He pulled his rain slicker off over his head and I got a brief look at his belly and went weak, he had begun to carry a little extra weight there when he was forced to stop working out when he tore a muscle in his shoulder and his doctor ordered him to lay off the weights until it healed completely, but the remnants of a glorious eight pack was still there. And yes, the man is married, however they have an open marriage, they fuck who they want. “How was your drive in?”“Uneventful. Slow,. It didn't help that I'd frequently run into people I saw at the party,but couldn't say anything because they didn't know I was even there. No onedid, aside from the Millers and the other Santas, that is. I saw Mr. Miller'scar at our gas station a couple of days before the 4th. He rolled down thewindow, and I raced over. He didn't say anything...just gave me a wink. Hisdriver, though, gave me an invitation. I was really psyched, happy that I'dproved myself worthy. The 4th turned out to be a. There's trouble. We heerd shootin' an' there were some smoke comin' from over near the Pike a while back." Jefferson waved his ax handle toward the southwest, in the direction of Seth's home."We could tie him up and put him in the barn," suggested Seth, trying not to think about his mother and hoping to remember what they did with prisoners in the Walter Scott books. "Or we could drag him back down into the woods and leave him there." Drag who into what woods?" demanded Caroline French as she.