" You guys are bad. You have your head in the clouds. I need to get grounded. I gotta go down to the shop."The mood in the motor shop was party time. ...hey had produced four motors today and they all tested within a range too close to declare a winner. I told them that with their efforts, many owners and drivers were going to be singing their praises. They all had a fresh engine in front of them, but none of them wanted to lift another wrench for the day."Let's button up the shop and make it. "I'd chuckled, quickly brought my voice under control as it rose and triedto turn the chuckle into a giggle, then added a rough cough to the end.She'd be surprised to know what kind of 'man' I was turning into. They allwould. Still, I was glad I'd stayed. I might have screwed up big time, butI'd also brought something of incalculable value out of it. On the whole,I was ahead. And just because I was a woman physically shouldn't make meless of a man. My mind was not the plaything of my body.But. That goes for everyone here.”“Ten,” he said. “Give me that long. Either we will have made it by then or we won’t have. There are plenty of resources here we can use and we do have many skilled people even if they were not always good people.”“Am I allowed to drop off more people if I need to?” she asked him.“Please do,” Rupert said. An odd expression then came over his face. “Dusty, one thing, can I really give Joey a baby?” he asked with apprehension.Dusty grinned, “You already have, so look. I honestly did look forward to your classes. Even though I didn’t do so well in them.’ ‘No, you didn’t do so well. You did enough to pass the class and you could have done better. If you spent a little less time undressing me with your eyes and focusing on the subject, you might have done better’ Erica said. Never once looking away from the moon. She knew that he was ogling her during class. At the time, she found it bothersome and at the same time nice. She wasn’t sure how he would react.