"Andy was silent for a while longer before he finally turned to Karen."So those pictures weren't fake?" he asked Karen."No, Andy," she shook her head....So I did drug you?" he swallowed hard. "And, uh, rape you?" You tried," she said. "It just wasn't me." You know," he said, "all these years my father has refused to speak to me because of what he thinks I did to you." Andy, I'm sorry," Karen put a hand on his arm. "But —" No, no," he chuckled quietly. "If he knew what I actually tried to do to. What did you say?" I hardly remember. I was so nervous and flustered being spoken to by ahot guy. He asked me to his graduation party. I said no." You said 'no'?" Of course I said 'no'. I'm not ready to start dating. Not now. Not yet ...after Daddy comes home. After. Not now. I don't want to be in a positionwhere my secret might get discovered. No way. I'll date after ..." Suit yourself. He's really cute though. Maybe you should give him yournumber, play a little hard to get, then. ”Yorke was determined to keep it short, “Absolute hell, crammed into two weeks,” he told her. “Starting with the joy of receiving the complimentary copy of my book.”“Three days later we heard the news that the Wickley Publishing house had been completely gutted by fire.”“Oh, I remember that,” Julie said. ”Lost everything. Went out of business, didn’t they?”Yorke nodded. He took a deep breath, a sip of coffee, deliberately delaying, before telling her the horror of the very next day finding. “Uh… like maybe when you lose a round, you ah… you have to take a dare,” I stammered, making it up as I went along. “You have to maybe touch one of the winners, or you know — maybe give them a kiss?” I glanced shyly at Casey, wondering what an oral caress on her sensual lips might feel like.The tip of Casey’s tongue caressed her lips as she mulled it over. “But there are two winners and only one loser each round,” she pointed out.“Rock, paper, scissors?” I offered as a.