Chloe you need to watch yourself around him.”“What do you mean? I’ve never heard anything bad about him and he is top of the field. I haven’t ...ver met him, but I met his grad students, both current and former, and they only have good things to say about him. In fact, they wax lyrical about what a great supervisor he was.”“Well. It’s probably stupid. But, you know the epigenetics conference you are going to has been held every other year for a while. Waterman always goes. When I went a couple of. I promise. Just let me go." Naina begged her captor for her release to no avail.Naina's sobs, and pleas fell on deaf ears. Tears rolled down her cheeks.Her captor just chuckled and opened her dress' two top buttons.Sobs racked Naina's body as she again tried to twist away from her captor.It happened so fast that Naina didn't even realize it for a few seconds. When she had begun twisting, he had grabbed the top of her dress where the first buttons were undone. With a swift jerk, he yanked her. It wasn’t a serious thought – he was far too comfortable in Simon Nelson’s former home, and was doing a fair job making it more his place and less Simon’s ... which was probably a good thing.A call from his son, Paul, had let him know Vida had spoken with a divorce attorney.Not a surprise, really, and not totally unexpected.He had dumped a load of shit on her, upended her world ... and then he’d made the mistake of acting as if things would work out without putting in any effort to help that. He closed it, and plodded back to his office. It was true.Prostitution was a perfectly respectable profession. And it didn'tdiscriminate. Philip pushed the profoundly advanced thought from hisbrain, and sat back in his chair. So much for keeping with this, andnot wasting time. Oh well, he'd killed a man, and been to jail tonight.That was a bit much for anyone. The phone rang, and Philip looked atit. It rang again. Then, it rang again, and Philip picked it up.Obviously, they weren't giving up..