I thanked Mindy and got another sparkling smile. The next day an absolutely gorgeous young woman named Darcie Howell introduced herself to me. She was...Mindy’s AA. She told me as she looked me straight in the eye, “And now I also belong to you ... for anything you need.”Dave spent a half-week with Mantra Electronics and Tara et. al., and then midday Wednesday shot across to Dallas to keep Marsha happy at GBInc., and her and Ashley ecstatic in the evenings. He was almost giddy about the sex.My. .provocative words - they all made her an incredible fuck. Mmm, she had all my senses going.Then a sense of guilt set in. I’m supposed to be the responsible, upstanding, should-know-better party. If we were discovered, it would probably be a disaster.Where was this headed anyway? Maybe it was a once in a lifetime moment two people experienced, and that was it. Perhaps I might never see her again.I snapped out of my funk and noticed the bed was still a mess from our sexual romp, so I. ”“Yes, you would say that, but that’s not what I asked. But what would happen?”“She’d be unable to do any good.”“You want perfection from the system. What is the enemy of the good?”“The perfect,” I sighed. “Something I can’t achieve myself, but which I demand from the government.”“Which is not a failing, in and of itself, but it is the one topic on which you obsess and simply can’t let go. And in this case, that obsession overlapped with your innate desire to help any woman who finds herself in. “How long you been out here?”“Yeah, it just cut out on me like, two or three hours ago. I ain’t a mechanic, I don’t know what its problem is. It made some clanking noise in the motor, though. And I got no cell service out here.”Jennifer pulled out her phone. “Me either, nothing.”Mr. Bradley bent down near the engine, so I did too. He tugged at a couple of wires, then pushed on them. “Wires seem connected, You’re not just out of gas, are ya?” He unscrewed the cap and saw that no, I’m not that.