I have been feeling pressure from above to write this whole thing off. Subtle but unmistakeable."I know when I'm licked. We are dropping this whole me...s. We have plenty of real crimes to deal with. We won't spend any more time on this, ... whatever it is."He got up to leave. Neither of us offered to shake hands.As he walked to the door, he turned back and said, "I feel sorry for you, Mr. Humphries. I don't think you know what is going on any more than I do. You have some damned serious problems. I filled a grocery bag with my shaving stuff and toothbrush. I walked out to the kitchen door and placed the bags on the floor and went in to talk to Cathy for one last time before I left.I saw that she hadn’t moved and just had a lost, vacant stare going on. I asked; “Don’t you see what your pushing to break our wedding vows has done. If I leave here before I get some answers about where the wild hair about cheating got up your ass, I won’t be back. Tomorrow, I am filing for separation. I will. Her parents had already left for the store. Remembering the instructions Autumn gave her last night, she stepped into the shower and washed her body. She grabbed the razor then remembered that she was told not to shave again until after next Saturday because the girls would do that as part of their procedure training.She stepped out of the shower and toweled herself off, brushed her teeth, combed her hair, stepped into her flip flops and headed downstairs. As she walked through the living room. ..” Kara stammered as she panted for breath.“You look like you’ve seen a ghost. Is someone following you?” he asked while staring into the darkness behind her.As if on cue, the cloud blocking the moonlight moved away, giving her a better look at the man standing in front of her. Kara sucked in a deep, rapid breath at the sight of him. His t-shirt bulged with muscles, and his biceps looked as large as her thighs.His dark hair stuck up in spikes that looked both mussed and artfully arranged at.