; and in the event of an emergency, everyone was to respond appropriately, such as gardeners hiding from armed intruders, but helping with a fire.Caro... was given responsibility for the live-in staff quarters inside the Main House (under the Activity Level). The parents had no intention of employing anyone to work in the Main House yet - if it happened, it'd be after I moved away - but the rooms still had to be furnished. Carol's job at Peoria Road had just been bedrooms, but the staff areas. She heard her mistress gasp, the last sound she would ever make in this world, but the dog kept running.Today...Detective Dianna Shepherd sighed. Another weekend of going over the details of a series of missing persons cases with no real leads when she should have been resting, or finding some hot woman to fuck! She was so frustrated, on both sides.She looked at the photo of Marsha Patterson. Early forties, not bad to look at, lived alone with her poodle. Had she been lesbian too? If they had. He'd been overseas at a business conference when my mom called to tell him she was going into labor, and had boarded the first plane he could back to North America. Ironically, it wasn't that long, turbulent, twenty hour flight that killed him, but the short little jaunt between New York and home on a twin-engine commuter plane.I've seen photos of him, of course, and I've even see a poor copy of a commercial his company did where he walks on camera, shakes a football player's hand – an enormous. I certainly had no idea that Shelia had been scouting the area for some time, as I was to find out shortly, or that she had found this abandoned place that just looked like no one was home. She parked in the barn and instructed me to close the door behind the van. She stated that if anyone came down the road, which seemed highly unlikely, they would not be tipped off to anyone in the barn.Once safely inside the barn, we went up to the loft. Shelia had carried a quilt to lie on the soft loose.