She was dressed in classy stockings, short brown business skirt and cream colored shirt. "Hey, lovely how was your day?" I said and stepped to her to ...iss her lips. She looked me in my eyes and said with a tired voice, "Ugh, it was a tough meeting. A bit boring but I'm glad I made it." I smiled at her and offered her a glass of wine as the oven bell rang. "Just in time for dinner," I said to myself as I headed upstairs to get our daughter to join the family dinner. As usual, we talked about. Believe me, I’d be delighted if Karla and you agree to another evening together.” “I thought we were pretty good together, too.” Jasmine grinned at him. “Do you remember my friend Alexandria Carlton?” Karla asked Kevin that evening. “Alex? Yeah, sure. Divorced, mother of two teenage girls. What are they now, fifteen and twelve?” “Twelve is not a teenager,” Karla said. “Seventeen and twenty.” “Wow! Has it been that long?” “It has, to quote her, been a long time.” “So what brings this up?” “I was. “I’ve got a buddy from prison that I also do business with from time to time that is looking for a lady like Sarah and he’s willing to pay top dollar to have her live with him for a month. It’s no big deal Todd, I trust the guy and I’ve already made all the arrangements,” said James. With that James handed me a wad of cash. At that I politely asked James to leave the room because I wanted to talk to Sarah. “Is this really what you want to do? He’s selling you for 7 thousand dollars.” I said. “I. . well, I didn’t know what to think. I haven’t seen anyone in three days and now the road I have traveled ends at this lake and I shall have to go back and find where I turned off the wrong way.”“Ah, well that would be easy,” said Upik the woodcutter. “You must have taken the high road back at the manor of Master Borgia. It’s an easy mistake to make, but you’ll put it to rights by just going back to the manor and taking the low road out of town.”“But,” said Steven, “that is 81,034 steps. That.