’ Lucy felt like she had been kicked in the throat. There was no air in the room. Everything swam in front of her eyes and down she went. When she ...pened her eyes again, she was lying on her bed with Michael beside her and the blonde behind him had her hand on Michael’s shoulder, looking down at her with a pitying look. “Luce, you okay? You scared me.” For the first time her life Lucy realized that she no longer loved Michael. She realized that she was trying to hold on to what she thought. Tookover as quarterback on our high school football team when Igraduated." Does being a jock run in your family?" Pretty much, yeah. Our father was captain of his college team andlater served in the marines. I guess we Farrens are just a naturallymacho bunch." I think I'd like to meet Jack," said Susie."Please fasten your seatbelts," interrupted the captain over theintercom. "We'll shortly be coming in for landing."Which we did. We set down at the little airstrip just outside town.It was good. After the Ceremony Hogun took me downtown again, he explained that a lawyer had come to open my grandfather’s will.The building where Hogun landed the floater had three floors and was made just like our burg out of big square hewn stone blocks and Duro-Crete, but the windows were much larger than in the traditional buildings and there was a round company Logo etched into the glass of the automatic door. A stylized version of the Ragnarsson Sigil. Next to it the words: ‘Ragnarsson Inc.’Inside. I saw the way she was checking me out." Hell she was," said George. "She was checking my package."My three co-workers began a light argument about which of them Lisa had been looking at this afternoon. Bill laughed through the whole thing, alternatively mocking or encouraging as the need arose.I kept quiet, but I was certain that she would be at the club tonight. I had noticed her looking discretely at each of them. I should say that she had been looking at their packages.With the beers done,.