And I get to watch,’ said Karen. ‘This should be fun. And lots more for you, Ron. Betty tells me she’s the best.’ ‘Looks like I’ve walked ...nto the best day of my life, ladies.’ ‘You might just have, Ron,’ Betty said as she pulled me up and kissed me. Then, she knelt down, undid my belt, opened my pants up, slid them down, then pulled my briefs down to the floor. Out flopped my best friend, who I sensed was in for a very good time today, and Betty had me sit on the ottoman, removed her blouse. “Oh yes, I’m tending to a stand at the fair with the chess club,” Thomas told Mrs. Simmons. “How nice.” Karen didn’t find it at all surprising that Thomas was part of the chess club. Across the street from the Simmons house, a car pulled into the driveway. “Oh Mindy and Paul are already back.” Karen looked over at her neighbors whom she and her husband Bill often socialized with. “They drove down yesterday to pick up their daughter Emily from college for the weekend. Mindy told me that she was. It was a pleasant east facing flat and from the balcony in the front we had a nice view of the beach dappled with the shadows of the buildings thrown there by the setting sun. On the right side there was a large bedroom also facing east, with French windows that opened to a separate balcony and a slightly smaller bedroom on the left side of the sitting room. I offered to let Manuelle use the larger room as his need of space to keep his books etc was more than mine. But he said he would prefer. He could see the emotions that crossed her eyes and knew she wanted him just as much as he desired her yet still she was resisting him and for a moment, he could only wonder why. When realisation did finally dawn on him though, Michael felt like a complete and utter fool for being so blind. Of course she would hesitate after spending all her life hunting the creature he had become, after what she had told him about her family he should probably consider himself lucky that she hadn’t already.