" For the first time I noticed that he didn't have the 'five o'clock shadow' he once had. "I hated shaving every morning and then having to do it agai... when I got home from work. You remember how thick my beard was, don't you?" I did. I'd often commented about his 'shadow' at work and he'd once told me that if he could find a way to quit shaving then he'd invest into it. I guess he found that method after all. "Did it hurt at all?" "Not a bit. I just had to prepare myself for a daunting job. From where I stood you couldn't even see the hole I knew it had made in him.I turned my attention away and pointed it again at Golden. In a way it was useless; the Liberator was a single-shot weapon, you couldn't fire again unless you painstakingly reloaded and I had no more bullets with me anyway. But in another way it wasn't, I slowly realized as I saw him standing stock still; he didn't know it was single-shot, and he'd just seen it kill somebody. He raised his hands, both of them. “Go on downstairs and relax, I will be down in a minute.” she told me.I was downstairs on the recliner end of the blue sectional sofa watching Comedy Central, sitting in just my mesh shorts and waiting for my lover step mom to come down. I heard ice hitting the bottom of a glass, the familiar hiss from a soda bottle opening and then her footsteps comming down the stairs. She knew how much I enjoyed my whiskey and cola drinks and made one, quite strong to help me relax.She handed me the drink. " I smiled at him and continued to pat Sara on her back and put her to sleep again.As I put Sara to sleep, Viki said, "One request I have for you, can you please sleep here today? Sara might get up again and she is more comfortable around you."I replied, "Yeah, I think it makes sense. You can sleep in my room"Viki immediately responded jokingly, "I also need your company!"I responded, "Very funny". Soon he went and slept in my room and I slept in the master bedroom.I got up early in the morning.