"Serves you right, you bastard," she muttered to herself. Madeline noticed that Shelly was not wearing her wedding rings. This made her smile. Every t...me they went out clubbing together, Shelly always made a habit of taking her wedding rings off."Why do you do that?" Madeline had once asked."Oh, I don't know," Shelly lied. "I just like the extra attention I seem to get when guys think I'm not attached."Madeline couldn't deny that Shelly got a lot more attention than herself. Shelly was always. The belt and holster he left in the bag, but he transferred the gun itself to a side pocket of his coat after making a point of showing me it was loaded. I wondered aloud at the legality of this; did he have a carry permit? He simply scoffed at that.So it wasn't legal. But I suppressed my concern. Nobody'd probably ever know, the pocket was deep enough that the gun wouldn't simply fall out. And if my luck ran really foul and we bumped into Cesar Romero and company, well, the gun wouldn't. I tried to look surprised and I asked her how her day went. Corina told me to sit down and she went and got a beer and sat down across from me. I sat there and waited wondering how much of what I saw she would tell me. Corina took a sip of her beer and told me she didn't think right and she was sorry she took a bath before I got home. She said she realized I wanted to find out how messy she was after she was already in the tub soaking. I told her it wasn't a problem and to tell me what. I had a special two day training in Iowa so my company was putting me up in a hotel for Wednesday and Thursday night. My girlfriend, Liz, decided to take Thursday and Friday off of work so she could travel with me. She had an old college friend who lived in the town that my training was in and they coordinated schedules so she had something to do.After work on Wednesday, my girlfriend came over to help me pack. She was laying on the bed, hands in her pants, as I was packing. She always had her.