. It was no use... the word wouldn't even pronounce inside her own skull. Her Gary... a modern teen age Oedipus... doomed by copulating with his own m...ther. She burrowed down in the covers, flinging herself over on her stomach to bury her face and head with pillows to smother the moving playing screen in her head that brought it all back in moving color.Somehow the day had worn on. All the tears had been cried. All the filthy epithets had been hurled at herself... all the nightmare played out. Maybe, Janet had backed off with nerves. Maybe he was too nervous. My beating heart slowed a little as these thoughts sort of comforted me. Even if it hadn’t gone further, then Janet would be more than happy with our role play later. After another, long, five minutes I put down my beer and headed for the stairs.At the top of the stairs you could go left to the bathrooms, or right down a corridor to the bedrooms. I had been here before, I knew that the right hand corridor turned to the left. “I met someone. A guy. We’re dating.”Walker blinked back some moisture. My heart went out to him, but I didn’t reach for him, didn’t try to hug him. Not yet, that would come when we were alone, just the two of us. As we were before Mindy.Mindy said, “I love you, Walker, still do. You too, Winter. You saved me. And gave me back my life. No, gave me a new one. A better one.”I said, “But.”Mindy nodded, “I feel bad about this. Terrible. Guilty as hell. But I’m ... going to see how ... what happens.. I’ll call you to help debrief him as long as you promise he ends up dead.” John agrees.I hang up and walk out to find a smiling Akimi still on the phone to Randy while they chat about many things. I smile at a good outcome for her. I just hope it works out as well as it looks like it might.Lunch is being set up on the table, and most of my people are eating already. It’s smorgasbord, so they’re grabbing food while staff are still putting it out. I catch Lia’s eye, then nod toward Akimi, she.