The car stops and I hear him get out of the car, next I feel the cool night air as my door is opened, his hand reaches out and guides me from the car....He wraps one arm around my waist and ushers me forward, I hear the crunch of gravel under my feet and can smell jasmine, among other floral scents. The gravel, changed to grass and he still urged me forward. He stopped and I heard the tones of a password tapped into a keypad, he urged me forward warning me that there were steps. He guided me down. "Try that on for size, ya big baby." Later after eating, she washes dishes and Spade dries, saying, "Damn, trooper makes a zillion bucks a year, and no dish washer? What the hell, you have a gambling problem or something? There must be something I'm not seeing, how come you're not married? Good looking lady like you, you must have a mean streak a foot wide." "Guys seem to like the little skinny twiggy types. As you can see, that's not me. I paid attention in my classes and my defensive and. Besides, I thought the resolution was very creative and a rational compromise. The pack needed to reproduce, not merely to grow but to have fresh blood and replace members. Wolf life expectancy was considerably shorter than what I hoped mine was, so if the pack was my future, it needed to sustain itself into the future. We had a defensible den and plentiful food sources in our own isolated valley, much less in the more extensive valley to the east and what lay further north and south were. I was pretty desperate for some contact though." I know I sure was. Any chance Steve might ask Bob about us coming along?" Oh I don't know if I could stand having you around, but not being able to touch you." Maybe they'd go fishing or something?" I'll ask."I felt sure that Steve would ask Bob. They were pretty good friends and liked to do things together, golfing, sports, stuff like that. You know, guy's stuff. Now I was wishing that the four of us had done more together, but maybe this would.