My favourite. Just sit there, lad, until your car comes for you. Care to explain the Maryam comments a little?”“Just that she is an abused wife es...aping from her husband. We are sheltering her and her children temporarily, and keeping her whereabouts secret. The local police know about us, and that is all there is to it; just secrecy for her protection.”“An admirable action, Reg. I shall not mention it to anyone.”“Thank you, sir. My, this whisky grows on you.”The farmer gave a guffaw, “Shades. Things were simply out of hands. The entire extended family, the friends, friends of friend plus the neighbors and only God knew, who else was crowding the house and the back yard. Dylan was exhausted from running all over, chasing the younger cousins and their friends from damaging the plants, teasing the pet dog or some other nonsense as such. He simply did not want to wait for jumping into the pool. He ran inside the home, up the stairs to his room for changing into his bathing suit. Soon as. "And this is your idea of security, sugar?" I chortled. "Remind me never to give you my life's savings to protect. I mean, all it would take would be a curious squirrel—" Hey, fuck you and the horse you rode in on," she snapped, sounding genuinely offended. "Just fucking dig, asshole."I got my laughter under control quickly. This was sure no time to piss her off. As I continued digging—which wasn't as easy as it sounded, the ground was pretty thoroughly packed—I thought it wise to back off.. But, the ones we share, Evan? They tell me you’re the best professor they ever had because you really do care that they do well.” “That’s my Evan,” Emily grinned broadly. “He thinks of them as his children. He sets high expectations for them and they love him for it.” “From what I can see,” Rich kidded her, “he’s got high standards in women, too.” “Are you flirting with me?” Emily snapped back at him with an evil grin, “in front of your wife and my husband?” “At least they’re open about it,”.