I quickly moved to the bathroom. The bath was still half full, exactly how I had left it when Valarie came in. The water was cold so I emptied it and ...insed it out. With disappointment I saw the TV, which I had muted was now a blue screen – my 12 hours of porn was up. Sighing, I turned to the doubled shower. It was quite large, easily accommodating 4 people. All the walls were glass, with detachable shower heads on three sides. This was going to be fun. I turned the shower on so that it would. I didn’t mind this, she did just go straight for the things she found interesting and scout through them quickly, picking up anything she wanted and deciding there and then to buy it or not. Not like any woman I’d ever shopped with before and I found myself falling for her more and more each moment. Her taste in books was just like mine too, and when we met up in the sci-fi section I bit my tongue as I saw what she had picked up. Her reaction was an amused ‘snap’, but I wanted to ask her if. It’s not hard to spot when a person isn’t spending as much of their salary as they should be. If we find a target, then we set them up for a fall.”I knew what that meant. It was the classic method of giving someone a unique piece of information and seeing where it ended up.Monday night, I made a snap decision about what I would do the next day. I was in my Tiger Moth not long after breakfast Tuesday morning, flying up to Donington. Ewan was waiting there (he had driven up late the previous. In the collected glow of Christmas Eve candles, Terry knew he was no longer in God’s Waiting Room.When the shift manager informed Terry he would be working the night shift on Christmas Eve this year, he accepted without question. In the economic times, having a job was a wonderful, comforting thing. The little storefront church had a six o’clock service Christmas Eve and Terry attended, knowing it was a poor substitute. Sad but determined, he was there at six and again at seven-thirty, needing.