You going to fix me up with her?” Ashley turned sour. She didn't really like the thought of Brad with someone else, even if it was the right thing t... do. “Maybe... We'll see.” Brad and Ashley heard the garage door, announcing the arrival of their parents. Neither wanted Mom and Dad to even have an inkling of what they had been discussing. The subject was hastily changed. *** Ashley walked into the den where her father was watching television. She was wearing a knee-length dressing-type gown. " If not Jex then who else would do the job? Who else would try to end it? "Bring them as well." Helen insisted. Jex looked straight into Helen's eyes and slowly shook his head. Helen paused then nodded her acquiescence. "If you are not going to stay, I guess I should thank you properly for saving my life," she began. Helen reached out to run her hand along the hunters back. "You saved mine." Jex replied, "but perhaps we could thank each other then" Jex moved over to Helen's side of. No half eaten cake. No empty pizza platter. No cake crumbs scattered across the floor. No beer cans sitting in puddles of their own spilt contents. No piles of clothes and towels on the sofa. No empty wine bottle under the table. No wine bottle cork under the TV. No plastic plates and pizza crusts under the TV either. Just nothing. No mess what-so-ever! The place was totally cleaned up!Jared just rubbed his eyes in disbelief then looked down at his own body. He was in his own pajamas! Someone. "Don't be silly, dear," Marianne said. "I don't think anyone pays attention to what's written in the New York Post." At this stage we didn't know about Samuel Hedrick's rant on talk radio. "Anyway, you have to expect a bit of the rough with the smooth. If nothing else that's what Chrissie learnt when she used to go backpacking." Backpacking?" Yes," Marianne said. "It was after she'd graduated and before she surprised us all by marrying her university boyfriend, Mark. Almost unannounced she.