But the navy blue dress that I had put on had only been worn once since I had washed it a couple weeks ago. There wasn't much to place back into my ba...tered duffel bag, but after packing again I checked out of the hotel and climbed into my pickup truck. I put it into drive, and as usual it had problems changing from first to second gear, and I had to wiggle the pedal to give it some encouragement. That's what I get though, for only being able to afford a 1989 Chevy that decided it didn't want. "If you play your part, all that money willbe mine. I'll see to it that you get 10% of it. That's two hundred andfifty thousand pounds. All yours. No questions asked. I'm sorry I had todo it this way- I couldn't take the risk of you saying no if I askedyou." And I probably would have... but a quarter of a million pounds?It'd have been seriously tempting..."On this laptop you'll find my schedule for the next few days. I've gottwo modelling shoots coming up- one for a fancy dress store on. “I’m sure Eddie will come around,” I said.“If he stays out of trouble long enough. He was not raised to be in trouble or to hang out with kids who were. I always knew he could get into trouble easily. It’s why I enrolled him in a religious based private school. It took all my salary to pay for his education, but I made it work thanks to my mom and dad,” she explained.“I’m sure they are proud of you,” I said.“I was still growing up myself. Fortunately I used Eddie as a crutch. Now I don’t know. I wanted there to be a record of whatever he did and thought you might get a kick out of it.”El looked at the woman who had become her best friend, “A kick?”“Yeah, like I said, things didn’t work as planned. Would you like me to tell you or would you like to see?”“Wait, you recorded my husband making a pass at you?”“You bet, and as I said, he wasn’t the first. I sort of developed this technique in dealing with them. The downside of the internet is there is so much porn and pretty much.