I woke from my nap hearing someone groan. I opened my eyes to see Julie inserting the tail back into Sheila's ass. She wiggled it as it seated and She...la groaned again but lay still. The girl was exhausted. I slowly got to my feet."Perhaps, we need one for you, too." I said to Julie. She looked up at me and grinned. She bent over and I saw that she did have one."Jeff gave it to me while I lay on the floor," she said. "It's a little bigger than Sheila's; longer, too." I smiled and went into the. "Once I realized that Lauren wasn't coming back I packed up Carla and the baby stuff and started coming back to Houston. I didn't get too far before I came upon the collision. The police had the highway blocked and weren't letting anyone through. I overheard two of them talking, saying it was Lauren. And then I saw her car being towed away. It looked like the same one she drove away from the hotel."I told Sharon everything that Lauren had told me, about how Tran beat her when he found out the. It’s personal." Laura raised her eyebrows with that quizzical look that mothers seem to specialize in. "Never mind, then." "How ‘bout you, Mom?" "Not much, I’m afraid. I ran Tim home and he gave ma a tour of their house. You really ought to see it when you get a chance. Some local architect designed it, and it is really impressive." It’s a rambling stone contemporary, with a terrific view out the back windows. The living room has a huge stone fireplace and overstuffed leather furniture. "By the. All of a sudden she became nervous and he could feel her internal emotional conflict as she tried to decide what to tell him. ‘It was all his idea,’ she finally burst out. ‘Calm down, let’s start from the top.’ ‘Okay, Victor made some deals without telling the board and when they started loosing money he borrowed from some questionable individuals to cover them but the FTC got wind of it and started sniffing around. Unfortunately I was also a signatory to them although I didn’t know at the.