In this case his worries were unfounded, Red was exactly what he appeared to be, a young man trying to get home after a horrible ordeal. It took the ...agon train 15 days to make the trip from Fort Smith to Oklahoma City. They had averaged about 13 miles a day which was pretty good time for a group of people that knew nothing about traveling over a rutted trail in wild country. The country between these two points wasn’t settled land by any means but it wasn’t nearly as wild as what they would. I was as hard as stone and wondering where or how I was going to get relief. I figured out the two women had conspired in the washroom. Was my mother trying to put the two of us together? I thought about that. So what? Shelly was a fine young woman. At first I felt sorry for her, but lately, I was feeling something quite different. She was more than just an employee now. I had an interest in her and it wasn’t just as a friend. My thoughts were a lot more personal than that. My hands slipped. " No doubt." We played some music. Watched a movie. There's a small group of us that play poker, so we did that. I made my world famous chip dip. Very mellow by your standards."Sophia laughed. "Actually, it sounds cozy. Different from my usual, but cozy." Tuck the sarcasm back in, Wild Woman." Actually, I wasn't being sarcastic. This was at your house?" Naah. Up the street. The Kenney's house, that's our usual neighborhood hangout. You know Mo Kenney?" Mo Kenney. Hmmm. No, I don't think I know. The morning had been consumed with planning the farewell arrangements for her much older deceased husband. She had tried to act the part of a grieving widower and not act like she was glad he was dead, which honestly she was. Now she just wanted to get home and relax. As she slowed from almost 90 mph to under 10 mph the thought of the inheritance money being all hers sent a flash of heat through her body that was almost an erotic feeling to her. She took her left hand off the steering wheel and.