After wandering around the village for a while, which had not changed much in the 30 years since I last stayed there, and picking up three bottles of ...inot Grigio, I headed back to the cottage. As Jo suggested, I headed down the side of the cottage and as I rounded the corner into the garden, I heard my name mentioned and giggles coming from both Jo and Gillian. If I had not known, seeing them together, I would have thought that they were sisters.Jo and Gillian saw me, and both smiled. Jo. "Kim smiled. "Professor Nolam is a wonderful lady. Her children are delightful, if a bit of a handful. It was fun and I have always enjoyed my time with them." Well, I happen to know that she and her husband were always pleased to get away and had no worries to interfere with their nights out together when you were with the children."Kim smiled again. She wondered if Doctor Lake was aware of exactly how the Professor and her husband spent some of those evenings out. She had found out one night. "Alex, there's a shower and a change of clothes through thedoor, you got 15 minutes to get cleaned up," the soothing voiceannounced. "Uh, thank you sir," the call terminated leaving the boystumped. Text scrolled across the screen, 'the clock is ticking Alex.'Alex did what was asked of him and was back at his post with a minuteto spare. Text across the cell phone, 'You are doing great Alex.' Alexnever noticed the door and the cell phone disappearing, he just addedit up to the crappy night he was. Bart knew I enjoyed a couple drinks at the end of a long day.“Frank, how the hell are you,” a female voice said behind me. I ignored the voice since she obviously was talking to someone else. “Frank, it’s me, Cindy,” a young woman said as she tugged on my sleeve.I turned to face the woman who was probably not more than 25 and her straw color hair was the worst attempt to turn her hair blond that I had ever seen. But she was cute and her hazel color eyes were expressive as was her smile.“You.