"The next move was well thought out and pre-planned and took Karen and everyone else completely by surprise. Lynda and Terry fled, not to the corner l...ke everyone expected but to Karen's office, the only room with a lock on the door. It wouldn't withstand a battering but they could delay any entry and hopefully negotiate. Karen was going to have them thrashed so it might as well be for something serious. Through the glass panel in the wall Karen used to observe the goings-on in the room, they. He felt she was exploring him. There was not an inch of his back that she hadn’t managed to touch, and at the moment he was glad his back was to her because otherwise she might notice the erect muscle in his pants that wanted a massage of its own. Conner almost wanted to tell her to stop but didn’t have the heart. Somehow he felt like she was enjoying the contact as much as he was. He had just finished telling her about one of his more difficult customers, an older woman who was mostly deaf. He tried to put them in order, but he had not seen enough of them the night before. As a result, the sequence was haphazard. It might have been all the more horrible for it.Havel sat down. He was pale and Jake could sense his nausea and his arousal. If it had been anyone besides Ellen, Jake would probably have shared the arousal.“I don’t appreciate that, Mr. Fielding.”And neither did I when I discovered it. I doubt it’s any consolation, but I felt worse than you do. According to his most recent. Things would have gone differently if I had thought them through. I didn't though. All I was thinking about was that I'd written a check for a lot of money, and now I needed more. I'll regret it to my dying day.I woke up early and used the cleansing trick that Martin had taught me; it was better than a cup of coffee. Flights from San Jose to Vegas started at six in the morning, so I just hopped the first flight I could. I paid cash at the counter. I arrived at the Illusions hotel from the cab,.