I had no idea of what to do yet, so I just looked at them."Denton, you're not supposed to be home for hours," said Beth, nervously."I solved the probl...m with the magnetic repulsion emitters," I said. "I do things like that. I'm kind of smart about some things. But, I'm kind of stupid about others apparently." Please don't tell me your husband is some kind of scientist?" asked the guy. The look on his face had morphed from pure ecstasy to seriousness in less than a second. "Wait a minute. You. "The young patrician shook his head. "What can we do now?" At ... three thirty in the morning?" Malcolm frowned. "I don't know. But, no one else can do anything until the market opens either. They should be..."Corvus had a clear vision of a faceless man creeping into Regula's rooms and shook his head violently. "We can't trust some corrupt treasury official not to decide he'd like to vet her himself before the bidding starts."Malcolm paled. "I ... hadn't thought of that. I can ... send a runner. ..”I didn’t hear the rest, and I didn’t care. I was already up the stairs. Her door was locked, but a little nudging with my foot against the lock had the door flying open. Well, it was a fucking room door, what do you expect?She sat on her bed and looked like a picture of misery. As I entered the room, I thought I saw a short flash of a smile in her face, but even if it was there it was replaced by a look of fear within the blink of an eye. She was scared. I assumed that my face showed the. Whenever I went to the adult theaters, I just couldn't jerk off or nothing. It just wasn't the same like it was back home. I would call my wife to see how she was doing with Paul, to which she says that they would text or IM, yet they hadn't gone out the following week. She asked me if it was okay to see Marc, to which I mentioned that I was okay with it. She mentioned this on a Monday and wound up going out the next day with him for lunch, then dinner on Wednesday, and then to his hotel that.