. well, I don't know. Was it true? Or did you make it up?" She finally asked.I felt my temper flare."Michael!" Catherine warned.I took a deep breath a...d scanned Helen quickly. She wasn't trying to pick a fight. She was just saying whatever was on her mind at the time, without any regard for the effect of her words on anyone else. My wife, in my last life, had been like that. You'd think after all the years of enduring it, I could handle it better, but it still got my goat."Helen," I finally. This made Laura's panic worse. After weeks of not seeing Makeeda, and dreaming about her and masturbating all the time, Laura felt very vulnerable."I'm dying to see you," she said softly into the phone."Sorry I didn't call," Makeeda apologized. "Very busy over there." I'll bet they loved you." They... seemed to," Makeeda said, wearily. "It's hard to tell with them. They grin and smile at everything. But they want me back. My agent's arranging another trip, probably in May."Laura felt like her. Frank decided to help his friend out by asking what was on everyone's mind; "What's a Pay Leo hunt, Mac?" Anything it wants!" Macario laughed. "No. Actually, folks, the whole idea is that whenever a group of people want to go hunt some really dangerous prey, like saber toothed tigers, that person can contact us and we'll arrange a party to go back through time – into pre-human history so we don't mess up our future."I've just spent several months in the far distant past with my hot, fiery wife,. .. and well connected. Well, Armando had connections of his own. He closed up Lucia's Kitchen and painfully hobbled several blocks to a bar. The arrogant youth blocking his path to the back room demanded to know his business. "My business is with your boss, not with his hounds!" The youth reacted angrily to the deliberate insult. "Ya tell him Armando is calling in a favor. Tell him that Sergeant Forte is remembering 1945 and a debt."The youth looked confused. "If you think I'm gonna waste his.