He and my father had developed a close bond. Daddy believed Thomas' threat, but I knew better. He had already set his sights on taking over the busine...s from Daddy." Suppose he had left, would you have let him?" He did leave, for three months. He found new employment, and he did well. Bunny moved into his own home in Ridgeline, close to his office. Daddy and I didn't speak for the entire time that Thomas was gone. He missed Thomas far more than I did. Daddy bought the company that Thomas worked. "I guess ittakes loosing a family member so close to you to realizehow important being close to a love one is." How did." Paula began but couldn't get the words out tofinish the sentence."She died in her sleep." George said quietly. "At least shedidn't suffer." Can I do anything to help?" Jane asked."You know we're here for you, girlfriend," Kate added.Paula just turned toward them. She tried to crack a smilebut couldn't. She just walked silently into the dorm roomwith her parents to pack up. My ears twitched as I turned my head, searching for the source of the current. It came from the right of the stairs.I took two steps and paused. Chaun bumped into me again. “What?” he asked.“Trip wire. Very fine.” I bent down and stared at the taut piece of string across the ground. My eyes blinked. “It’s made of crystal as fine as my hair.”“Impressive. What’s it connected to?”“Don’t move.”I followed the trip wire, crawling on my knees, my large breasts hanging before me. It led to a mechanism. Now come on, enough of this sort of talk and let’s get you off to your room where you can rest up and watch TV.”That had been nearly a year ago now and had changed her whole approach to nursing Ben and some of the other old men in her care. She had tried to ignore it when she took Ben back to his room that day but the way he had directed her thoughts to his cock and the way he had described her as being sexy had played on her mind the rest of the day. She had found herself checking her image.