“Thank you, I was thinking the same about you” she whispered as she sank into her seat. “Well you’re finally here, what would you like to...do?” I asked as I took in her lovely sexy aura, “your wish is my command sexy lady.” “Let’s go back to your place and I can freshen up and you can tell me what you have planned for my first day in New York” she said with a smile and definitely a twinkle in her eyes. “Let’s do it I said” as I stepped on the gas and pulled out of the parking area,. All her life, Patty had been treated like she didn’t matter. Her older sister was prettier and more successful, her only boyfriend in college had revealed that he had settled for her when he really wanted her more attractive roommate, and now she was going to be raped by this skidmark!?Her hand flew out to grab something, anything, that would help her. Her fingers closed around something solid, and she swung it back, hard.“Ack!” Carl yelled, and fell back, holding his head where the whiskey. 'Directed service' is where the state or the Feds decide a rail line is too important to local commerce to lay fallow, so they tell a railroad to take them over, sort of like eminent domain. Often they provide subsidies for operation, but not always. Railroads are not like other forms of commercial transportation. We pay property tax, and maintain our lines out of our own budgets. Highways and airlines, on the contrary, get pretty good payments from the Feds or the state to pay for their right. ’ That was a weird thing for her to tell me, but Mel could be cryptic sometimes. She walked back to the bathroom and shut the door, yesterday’s clothes were in there. Damn. I should have thought about this before and brought clothes to the couch with me. Evidently I’m not the tactician Hannibal was (although I’m not aware of him having dealt with this particular situation). So I bit the bullet, and walked into my room to grab clothes. Luckily, Cassie was still asleep. I searched through the.