He found me in his new bedroom, arranging his clothes in the closets and drawers. We had our talk. Karl told me about his Saturday with Ian and Alec... I realized Alec was the secretary/tour guide at the MG museum. I vaguely remember seeing a British couple at our city hotel, but never made the connection until Rex’s update and Karl’s disclosures. That Saturday night Rex treated me to a salon full-body treatment and a hotel-porch-picnic. I betrayed my husband twice: by fucking Rex and breaking. Where she stopped. There was something, something that stirred her senses for the briefest moment like when you’re nearly asleep and believe you hear a sound. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply, sending out wisps of her own magic unseen by anyone but her to search the air for any hint of what it might have been. Much like that imagined sound in the night though, the more she attempted to focus on it, the more impossible it was to find until she finally dismissed it as a flush of excitement. "Tim, I've told Rebecca that she can stay with us a few days. I didn't want her wandering around in that big empty house all alone right now," she said. "Of course. Come on in Rebecca, we have plenty of room. Let's put your things in the spare bedroom," Tim said, picking up her suitcases. "Thank you, Tim... thank you for everything. I won't be any trouble," Rebecca said. "I know you won't 'Becca. I'm not worried about that at all," Tim said with a smile. He put the suitcases on the bed for her. That was ok because Emma intended to make an offer he couldn’t refuse.The store was small enough that it was a pretty sparse crew on most shifts. For this particular shift, it was only Emma, Mike, and Liz. Emma was the “manager on duty” since she had the most seniority. That made it easy to ensure that they she and Mike would end up on break together.She followed Mike into the break room and came up behind him. He didn’t hear her but he found out she was there when she dropped all pretense of.