He was a computer expert; no one in China knew more about the internet than he. He knew – KNEW – that everything and anything sent on the internet...must be recorded in many computers; each node that a part of the message went through would have it. This IO person was an idiot. He considered discarding the message entirely, but continued decoding. If he had not, the effort would be incomplete, and he was obsessive about completing things.Does this seem preposterous to you? Is it more preposterous. Valerie noted that he'd left his duty belt in the car. He'd removed his jacket, probably in the hopes that no one would notice he was a cop on the way in, but the rest of his outfit made it a poorly kept secret. At least he was smart enough not to bring a gun into a situation like this. Studying his frame, she spied the outlines of a phone and wallet in his pants.'Jackpot!'She returned to her bag of toys and started rooting around in it. As Randy disrobed, she found the item she was looking for. ’ She thought. She did not want anything but sex from him, clearly he wanted sex too, but she had to be sure that was all he wanted. ‘Damn! All I wanted was a little tub fun and I end up thinking about all of this, what’s the matter with me?’ He watched as her hand absently quit playing with her breast and she didn’t move. Had she fallen asleep? She was very beautiful lying in the tub, her hair up, small tendrils escaping the pins, skin gleaming from the steamy water. He wished he were in the. I'm not sure when I found I had my arm around Sylvia but she took my glass of sparkling wine from my hand and set it down with hers on a nearby table, turned to me and kissed me. It wasn't a peck on the cheek but something a good deal more personal. At first I was surprised but, as the kiss deepened, I brought her closer to me and responded.When we broke we looked at each other and I knew then we had changed our relationship. I wasn't yet sure what it would become but it was no longer a.