He spent some time talking to Eve after that.We kept working up until the show came on, then sat down to watch it. “Good evening, and welcome to ABC...��s Wide World of Sports. We begin tonight with a follow-up to a story from three weeks ago. Here’s Keith Jackson.”“Thank you, Jim. Three weeks ago, I highlighted a story about a small town football team from Hutchinson, Kansas, the Salthawks, and their amazing quarterback. Friday night, I got to witness his play, live. If you recall, in a show of. What if Social Services decided you were bad parents, and took your pregnant daughter away from you? What if there were some law that had been violated that meant your son had to go to prison until he was an adult?Or, you could look at the facts at your disposal and decide that the kids who had gotten involved in this illicit scheme were stupid, but that nobody seemed to have been coerced into anything, or injured in any clearly visible way ... and do nothing about the man who had helped seduce. “So I thought, what the hell, it wasn’t like there wasn’t anything desperately waiting for me back home. I know, I should have called or at least texted you. I guess my impetuous nature hasn’t lost any of it impetuousness over the years. I find it seriously helps me from growing old or being scared to explore another facets of life. And that is very important at this stage of the game, don’t you think, Ron?”I was glad that Phyllis had dropped the familiar name of youth, ‘Ronny.’ There were. It began as these things often do. She leaned forward slowly,carefully, as though sudden action would spook him. She breathed in the scent of him as she paused inches from his lips, eyes roaming over his face, lingering on his mouth. Her breath beat out a staccato rhythm against his mouth that matched the beating of her heart. What they’d done before earlier had been easy. This was the hard part, the terrifying part. And slowly, neither knowing which had done it, the distance between them.