” When Jay came back she had a couple of more buttons undone on her top and told me that she had pulled her skirt a little higher. She also said tha... she had a real treat in store for us the next time she had to reach for a shot. I asked what she meant but she wouldn't say although I could tell by her excitement and the mischievous smile on her face it was going to be good. The next shot that I took, I deliberately left the white ball so that Jay would have to reach right across the table. I. Rose carefully stepped out and made her way towards the bathroom's small closet. Rose pulled the little door open, and again, found no towels."Did I really forget to grab a towel?" Rose said, sounding very unsure. She had never forgotten a towel before. Something weird was going on.Rose tried not to think about it. Her towels must be in the basement in the dryer. Where else could they be?She put her hand on the doorknob of the bathroom, and opened it. It wasn't often Rose was naked outside of. ’ I paused for a moment. ‘Would you like me to come over to your house with the fixings for a nice dinner and cook you and Kellie a good meal? Say, tonight at 7?’ Karen’s smile was full of light. ‘Sure, Jimmy. What were you planning on cooking?’ I grinned at the two of them. ‘How about steak, and a side salad?’ Kellie squealed, and Karen laughed. ‘Sounds wonderful.’ That evening, I arrived with a grocery bag full of steaks and salad materials, plus bottles of sparkling cider. ‘I pride myself on. " he said pointing to a door made of three pieces of six-inch pine. It took me two kicks to break the center board and reach in and trip the latch. Beckwith left a couple of men on guard there as he had at the constable's office and the rest of us, maybe a dozen or so, went on inside the tavern. "Build up that fire," was the first thing Billy said as he came through the common room like a horse in a hen house. "Stay away from the liquor," was the second.Just then we heard someone clumping down.