"Wow, Mom, another tough day?" I said as her complexion appeared as if she was exhausted."Yes, I'm totally drained,” Mom expressed as she surveyed h...r surroundings. “What's all this?”"Oh... just a little surprise I decided last minute. I know how hard you’ve been working over the last week, and I wanted to do something special for you," I replied as I set the casserole on the table.Mom chuckled and shook her head as she sat down. "Sometimes you do impress me, Kirtus." I try, Mom. I try."Mom. There were always a few horny ones hanging around there at auction time.It was two in the morning when my phone buzzed. My honey told me she’d just gotten home. Her restaurant shift ended at ten pm so I knew what I was gonna hear next. I hadn’t been alone in my hotel room very long either. A gal I’d banged a few years earlier recognized me at the bar and we relived old times. She was married now but still a slut.“Did you get laid tonight?” she opened with. Before I could answer she continued,. Carly came into the bar and sat at my table. While she was waiting for her drink she asked, "Have you found yourself any entertainment for the evening?" I'm sure she wasn't used to being turned down and I could tell from her tone of voice that she still wasn't too happy about it. I really should have been flattered to even have been given the opportunity. After all I was fourteen years older than her and my slightly geeky look was not really in her league. I did okay with the women in the bar,. "Sabrina says it all the time, mum," Annie said."That's why she's going to finishing school, dear one," Lucy said.The door of the solicitors' office opened again. "Miss Lucy Longbottom?" the clerk called."Your turn, mum," Annie said.The clerk showed Lucy through the cramped front rooms to a back office. In the dim drizzly day, the office was lit by sinuous Geissler tubes behind tinted glass shades. The clerk seated Lucy at the foot of a large cherrywood table. "Thank you," she told the clerk.