I wouldn’t be much use yet anyway!’ ‘Oh, I don’t know,’ I said laughing back at him, ‘you’ve got a pretty mean tongue.’ So we finished...and sat down for lunch which was long and rambling. Enjoying the food, the wine (not that Mike had much to drink) and each other’s company. After clearing and everything we ended up in the lounge, me laying down with my head on his lap (as usual) and Jo sitting next to him snuggled up. She didn’t seem to want to let him get too far away from her, it was quite. " He let me into the living room and offered me a drink. I asked for coffee and a cigarette. My nerves were shot. The idea that Frank could come in at any moment terrified me. He'd probably be tipsy and amorous, and what I had to tell him wouldn't go down well even if he was sober and spent."Well, what is it you have to talk with Frank about?" asked his father. "You look drawn and nervous. It can't be that awful, can it?" It's very personal, Mister Perkins." Call me Jack. Now relax and if you. So I asked for an invite and told the salesman I was already attending.Definitely don't want to owe that guy anything.So on a grey Saturday afternoon I took my Lincoln out of the barn where I keep my seldom driven vehicles and off I went for dinner and an auction.At $1000.00 a plate the food better be frigging awesome. The address wasn't revealed to me until a half hour before start of event, I had been told what town it was to be in a few days before. Sketchy sales guy is based there, big. The length of the sleeve reached up to the top of her arm where it was buckled around just above the bicep to hold it in place. He then placed a similar sleeve onto her left arm. Taking a pair of leather cuffs, he buckled them over the leather sleeves around her wrists and gently pulled her arms behind her back attached the cuffs together with a short snap link after which he asked if she was comfortable.She just nodded in the affirmative, afraid her voice would give away the unknown excitement.