A navy skirt with matching heels finished her outfit. She was smiling as Nan began to ask some questions regarding alterations and materials and other...things that didn't capture my attention.The two of them had the most animated discussion. Just as I was starting to feel left out, Jessica began pulling clothes from the racks around us and holding them up to me. Nan agreed on some choices and disagreed on others. The ones they agreed on go on a rolling cart. The others are hung back where they. , to feel a presence beside her. Steve, dammit. Once they could afford a house with separate bedrooms, he had insisted on them. Intimacy made him very uncomfortable, and lying beside her every night made him irritable and restless. The only time he slept beside her was when he was so tired and sated from sex that he fell asleep in her bed. Wait. He was on one of his photography jaunts. He was probably at this moment sleeping in his rental car outside the governor’s residence. It had to be. Exited. As they left the hallway and entered the main room of shelves and aisles, customers again ogled. Blatant stares followed them as the walked over to the clerk. “Ladies. Thank you for stopping by today. Here’s your money back, and I want you to know that if you ever come in again, no payment is necessary. I’ll even give you 20% of the take.” Mary looked shocked at him. “No shit?!” Kelly said, “Hey, I blew seven guys, and I know my friend did, too. At twenty dollars each, that. He couldn't have been more wrong. The day after the plan was announced, there were more applicants than seats in the classes he had planned. This school would differ quite a bit from those he had been used to teaching. Most of the students in the first classes had very little, if any, formal schooling. Their first two years would be spent getting ready for the next four. Those classes would start immediately, in existing buildings. He was hoping for a few who had enough natural aptitude to be.