Working. Negative on any intelligence branch, nor are you being looked at by any terrorist organization, which is computerized at this time," Well, ca...l me paranoid, but we have had the phone company, the electric company, and now the gas company out here in the past couple weeks, and the gas company truck is at a location that has no lines whatsoever, but it is in a good position to monitor this house, visually," I told it a bit grumpily."I am unable to check with private sources such as. She and the kids went out, got in the car, and left. No one has officially seen her since." Officially?" Tanisha grinned."Well, I don't officially know it, but apparently another of our operatives was working on his own time to help get things set up," Jim laughed. "He's on vacation and I'd be willing to guess he's not alone. It seems that before she left, Shantel cleaned out the bank accounts, threw all the church records and computers in a dumpster, and then left all the doors to the house. So I ruled out that possibility and hoped for a shot at any lonely girl who might be drunk enough to consider getting naked with me. To be sure, I had lowered my usual standards, it being New Year’s Eve at a fucking swingers’ gathering, and was prepared to pair off with any woman who was available. After all, I’m not exactly the most attractive banana in the bunch, nor am I as young as I used to be. I really thought my ex, being two decades younger, probably had serious daddy issues. The crowd. " She feels responsible for what happened to me." Jim said sadly.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The day had turned warm and sunny and Julie decided to sunbathe. Jim declined an offer to join her and sat in the shade while Julie stripped to her bra and panties and laid out in the sun.At some point Jim must have dozed off, because when he awoke he heard Julie answer the phone."No, she's been and gone. You know what she's like when she is really on.