I didn't just like him, I found him incredibly hot. I wanted him. I guess part of me hoped that him staying with me would present many opportunities f...r him to charm the panties off me. Or just yank them off, pull them off, take them off with his teeth, whatever.It was a bit of a forlorn hope though because Benny was way out of my league even with his new ex-con status and I knew he'd bounce back in no time.He wanted to stay with me because he had become entangled with some half assed criminal. It’s too late to be here. Too late to be surrounded by all these dead people and their dead things. It wasn’t that she didn’t love the job, bigger museums had offered her jobs with better money and more prestige, but she always turned them down. She stayed because she wanted to be with the collection. But on nights like this, alone, in the dark, it was too easy to think of the building as her own tomb. She felt like one of the slaves buried with the old kings, tending the dead forever. Someone. He said go out right now and give me a price on the landscape, with all the bells and whistles, he said I know you do another doctors yard and do good work so charge me for what it is worth. I came back in and gave him the price and he said that is not enough and I will give you $1000 a month plus materials. I told him thank you and cried a little as now I had enough money to live. He told me he was giving me another $1000 a month for cleaning his office every day, since you live next door it. Tapato greatly values her prince,” Kalani told them. Her message was quite clear. Then to me she said, “Michael, you haven’t introduced your grandmother or David.”“Certainly,” I replied. Then turning to the others I said, “Grandmother. David. May I present Mr. Thomas Beauchamp, his daughter, Barbara Beauchamp, and his nephew, Lawrence Grimes from San Diego.Ma’am. Sirs. This is my grandmother, Catherine Wagner, of Seven Oaks, and her fiancé, Mr. David Combs. I may be the President of Wagner.