But...”“You’re lucky Jennifer. If this had happened before the Program, you’d be facing suspension or worse.” Emanuel watched a minute pass ...n the clock. “You’d better strip now. If you don’t, every additional minute will mean another week. Everyone else, you can flip over today’s recipe card and begin.”What do we have today Manny?Todd Lesummer’s ‘Almost completely from scratch’ double-fudge caramel brownies.Sounds good. I’ll start melting the caramel while you start on the fudge.Emanuel. . very low and inconspicuous, but somehow jarringly foreign.Walking slow and steadily around the basement, he eventually determined its source – a large drain in the middle of the concrete floor, about the size of a man's fist. It was covered by a surprisingly well made and ornate drain cap, seemingly impossible to remove.Getting down to his knees, Gerald tried to look down the drain, through the thick darkness to the source of the noise, but to no avail. He could hear it much more clearly now.. I've never..." and subsided into silence, realising that nothing he dared to say would fit the situation.Martha suddenly was inspired. She had undoubtedly lost Alan and if this was the last time she would ever see Sandra, who would undoubtedly crawl back to Alan, she would have some revenge on both of them first."Mark, you mean you've never seen a naked woman in the flesh?" she asked in a surprised tone."N-No," he admitted."And never fucked one?" she pressed on."N-no," again from Mark."Well,. "You're sitting there as if you haven't got a care in the world. I wish I could be as emotionless as you." Just leave, Shane. Just ... leave."As the door slammed behind him, I leaned my head back against the window. The rain was coming down harder now and I could make out the shape of the old elm out front, its boughs bending under the relentless wind.Try as I might, I couldn't get Shane's words out of my head. "Damn, you're good!" It had been almost a year since anyone had said that to me..