" That's not a problem. Tell him I'll be at his house tonight to discuss the matter with his wife whether he's there or not. Goodbye."She relayed the ...essage as I turned and walked toward the door."Wait! He didn't realize he had an appointment cancel. He can see you now."I almost laughed. He didn't know how important to me it was to protect the kids.Could I do a sufficient acting job to fool him? Hell, I had convinced Russian black marketeers that I was a terrorist desperate for some enriched. Shealso couldn't believe that she couldn't stop her own dumb brain fromhearing that question so personally whispered as flirting and arousing.She had never expected to be so aroused while getting so sad and upset.The parts of Sandra's brain that had been worried that she was flirtingtoo much with Dave before when he was just teenage crush on step-dadwere now overloading with concern that Dave had decades more experiencein flirting than she did and couldn't decide if this was weaponizedarousal. It looked like a religious ceremony but why? Does someone suddenly say, let’s have this ritual in the Target parking lot? Are there parking lot cults? “Is it the pain meds or is this really surreal?”Melissa replied, “It’s not the meds.”“Good to know.”We each watched, hoping to get some inkling of what was happening. We were waiting because I was freshly released from my week in the hospital. I now had rivets on my rotator cuff and had my arm completely bound. On the plus side after six days of. “You don’t need me now I’m gonna head off home” “Stay” I said “I want you to stay” you can’t leave at this time of night anyway” I leapt off the bed and put my arms around her unclipping the bra that she had just put on. “Come back to bed” I kissed her passionately on the lips and pulled her tight towards me pressing her beautiful breasts against my chest. Frankie slid her skirt and panties down and stepped out of them sliding back on to the bed beside Sarah. “Are you OK” she asked.