I spent the next hour thinking through a plan to get her away. She’d need to make some choices. What I didn’t know was whether I could trust her b...t I’d have to find out. When I woke the next morning, she’d already used the bathroom, the shower, and had dressed. Her ‘acting face’ was back on and she pretended she was a prostitute again. ‘I want my money so I can go.’ ‘In a minute. I have an offer, you get to decide. I’ll give you a chance to get away from Louis if you’ll come with me’ ‘Yeah. Wendy was grateful for any stolen time alone with Dan, and she envisioned them as a couple as they picked up the fried chicken and pizzas.Everyone helped themselves to the food and drink, finding a chair or floor to sit on in the rec room. The men couldn’t help looking at the darkness between the legs of nine very short skirts. Their eyes also appreciated the low cleavage the women offered. Brad set up the video camera to the large screen TV, and they watched portions of the afternoon of Eric’s. As I sat helpless, it chewed its way through the 456 documents in my personal file, nibbling at a word here, digesting a paragraph there, spitting out the bits it didn’t like. It particularly liked some of my earlier work: the sports review of 2000 for the local paper, the funny anecdotes that sprang forth from the mouths of my babies that I was hoping to cash in on in Take a Break, the letter I’d written to my best friend when she’d had her fourth nervous breakdown – the one that began ‘Carol,. Ditto on the forever.”“Glad we could reach agreement on that,” Danny quipped. “So, wife, lover, mother, you wanna clean up a little? If I know my mom, she’ll be here with the dawn’s first light to unleash Larissa on us.”Helen sighed dramatically. “I should’ve left the ‘mother’ out of my promise. But yes, you’re right. If we stay like this, we’ll get stuck together.”They conserved water by showering together and even put on their nightwear before they cuddled under the bed cover.“From now on,.