”She told me to leave the store and since we were done there, we left. We walked back down the mall and instead of returning to the food court, we l...ft the mall and went to a Denny’s for something to eat, rather than hang around.We talked and laughed and generally had a good time and then we split up. The girls went home and Jessie and I were left standing in the parking lot, watching them pull out and drive away before we turned to each other. I took her hand and gave it a squeeze.“How’re you. It took some time, but eventually the strategy began to work, and after a frustratingly long wait, his manhood was as limp as a wet rag.With that minor crisis over, Paul tried to come to some understanding about the situation. He wasn’t particularly fixated on figuring out why things had happened the way they had last night, nor was he dwelling on what he was going to do next. He just wanted some measure of clarity about it all, so he didn’t feel so lost.He deliberately avoided any thoughts. Jerrod had agreed to tell a cover story that I fabricated which was close to the truth. More importantly he agreed to stick to it and then ask for counsel immediately if questioned. The story was that he worked for me as my bodyguard. He only knew that we had gone to South America to search for a missing American. I had told him nothing else and nothing else really came up. We went down to search for him, we found him and we sent him home. That was pretty much the end of the story. What. Dave stayed in the living room with the boys, and Shae was there part time, but helping JoAnne in the kitchen too. Hazel showed up for a while with a few more presents for the boys, and after a while, they all had a big Christmas dinner. After dinner, both Shae and Dave collapsed onto the couch, and soon they were leaning up against each other, sound asleep after their short night. They woke up after a while to discover that Hazel or JoAnne had hooked up the DVD player, and the two older women.