"Carl laughed. "You can hardly call him John." He gave the humiliatedhusband a hard look and asked him, "What do you call yourself when youget dress...d up?" I... it's..." He hung his head. "Jemma." Well, Jemma," Carl said with his hand still on Linda's shoulder. "Whydon't you apologize to your lovely wife for keeping your dirty games asecret. Hmm?" I... I'm sorry, Linda. Can you just forget this and we can go on likebefore?"She thought about what a dull partner he was in bed, with his. " He hadn't even touched me since then, and now he's in Mexico." She started to cry a little then.I was always a sucker for that. I went over and sat next to her."He's an idiot who doesn't know how good he had it!" I said. "I sure as hell wouldn't take off. And I'd be 'touching' you every chance I could get!"She laughed a little."You're just saying that, I know I'm a fat, knocked up cow right now." I think you're gorgeous." Really? I haven't heard that for so long." Really?." How can you think. Kelly was 35 at the time, about the same age as me and we had talked before so we weren’t strangers. She knew I was married and I never had a thought of asking her if she wanted to go somewhere secluded.She grabbed the only open stool at the bar, a couple seats down from me and we exchanged hello’s. I was rolling dice with my friends for beer rounds and she asked if she could join in. We didn’t object, and hoped she would end up buying her fair share. We rolled and Kelly lost and had to buy the. Promise me. Promise me, Hex.”I sighed. She knew that if she extracted my promise, I would keep it. “Okay, love. Okay. I promise not to try to use it. At least until it’s been tested, and you’re satisfied with its safety.” I turned to Romy. “Do you have blueprints? Know how to construct the system?”“Yes.”“Could we install a grid, mesh, whatever, on Earth?”“Yes. Just bear in mind that we ... my creators, that is, never managed to move more than about four hundred kilos at a time with this. It.