" I felt rather relieved that I would be able to have the long awaited shower; my skin felt hot and clammy from the sun, the heat and if I was totally...honest... arousal."No problemo, Meredith." His husky voice transformed my plain old name into a sonnet of breath-taking beauty. I was captivated by his charms, but in reality he was much too young for me to waste a second thinking about the 'what ifs'."Ave a nice evening," he said as he stared straight into my eyes for one blinding moment. Then. She and Haley, they are starting to think alike. It’s a bit scary. Deena had a confident little smile.“Deena will stand on her own.”“I can do that, sir,” Deena said.“With all that, then,” Doctor Seavers said, “I think we can defer any further actions. I have your contact information. I shall see that you get the date and time for our discussions.”We all stood. “Thank you, gentlemen,” I said. “We look forward to continued cooperation.”Outside, once we got to the car, I sort of came down on. .. flirting?”“No. I just told him that I thought he did a good job.”Billy lit another cigarette and shook his head. “That man is no good.”“How do you know?” Catherine asked, keeping her eyes on the bubbles of champagne.“Heard about him from the others. Left a girl brokenhearted back in Chicago, they say.”Franny stole his cigarette. “Knocked up?”“I’m not sure about that,” Billy said carefully. His eyes swung back to Catherine. “I just wouldn’t be getting any romantic ideas.”“I never have. The local Santa Rosa news was mildly boring, except for a report on a gang or drug-related shooting near Cook Park."This is the sort of thing we would expect you to take more interest in, when your training is complete," Bud said as I digested the story. "Not something so small as this particular event, but the drug activity here and, as time passes, over a wider area."Knowing the little enough that I did about the way my parents died, I nodded grimly to that idea. I would have no problem at.