She didn't move.He stepped closer. "I'll take you home now." I'm not like this," she said to the window."Like what?" Alex blurted, immediately regrett...ng it. He rushed to cover his faux pas. "This ... confident?"There was enough light inside that they could see each other's reflections in the glass; she gave his a stern look. "You mean this easy?"Her eyes broke off first, returning to the vague horizon.He knew he'd made it worse by forcing her to articulate it."I'm sorry I brought you up here,". He’s a Husky cross. With what, I don’t know, but he’s taller than you’re average Husky. He mostly has sex with my wife, but ever since her joints started acting up my daughter’s wife takes care of him. Those girls you guys came with were the newest poon he’s had in a while. I think that awoke something in him. He’s itching to wander the world again, so to speak.”He leads the dog inside where Elizabeth is waiting with barely concealed excitement. When she sees Loki she can’t help but smile.. I noticed his door was open when I got here and I'll be hidden in the closet behind his desk with the louvers in the door. Make sure you position him so I can see you actually fucking with the good doctor, Mandy."With that instruction, Tom left Mandy's office to find his hiding place and waited for her to join the doctor there for her early morning seduction.Mandy immediately straightened her clothes and went to the ladies' room to touch up her lipstick, comb her hair and add some seductive. But, thenagain, she always said that. For Grace, there was always reason to hope."That's what hope is for, after all," she never tired of pointing out."It's what's left when you have no reason to think things can possiblyever work out."It was understood that Phoebe would eventually return East; it was theterms that were being hashed out. Claire insisted that Phoebe go back torehab, and Marcia couldn't argue with her there, but it wasn't going towork unless Phoebe was ready. Everyone understood.