Percy and Rick had been right there at their table. And yet… And yet they’d all but completely disappeared from his mind last night. To him, it ha... felt like the only person there with him was Anne. What did that mean? It meant he’d betrayed Caron. ‘Oh, God, forgive me!’ he thought and he saw in his mind’s eye his wife’s loving eyes, bright with amusement. Did that mean she gave her blessing? ‘Do you mean that, love?’ he asked her, and felt a warmth run through him as it came to him that Caron. ” “Yes” I agreed, with one hand between her thighs, “please turn, so that I can…study your..assets more closely…” This kind of talk was giving her a hard time, trying not to laugh. She turned her front towards me, naked apart from the colorful sneakers and the shoe-lace around her wrists. “Such a pleasure to see a young woman who still know the art of trimming in stead of…mere removal of all trace of…” “Don´t…over-do it,” she interrupted softly,” please, Carl..” I nodded. I still had my hand. One of the books was supposed to go on the top shelf,but there was a problem: I could not reach the top shelf. Since I startedat this job, I had always been tall enough to reach the top shelf, unlikesome of our more petite employees. As a matter of fact the shelf belowthat one was just out of my reach as well. There was definitely somethingwrong with this picture. As I tried to reach up higher, I made anotherunpleasant discovery. The hair on my hand was almost completely gone. Ihad been. John had found the babysitter through the wife of a friend of his; her name was Tracy King an attractive blond just out of high school. Without thinking he agreed to have her babysit his son on a trial basis and so far everything seemed to be going just fine. Things were about to change.On this particular night John's job required extra work on a balky machine that kept him from leaving his job at 5PM, he called Tracy and asked her to stay later than six. "I promise to drive you home," he said.