"Okay..." I say. "We'll forget Doom VFR and Blood & Money then... Ah!Astro Bot." Umm... That sounds kinda Star Trek-y," Laura says."Trust me, it's not..." I laugh as I set up the headset."Well- okay then, if you say so," Laura says. "Do you have an AmazonPrime account?" Umm, I do, yeah," I reply. "Why?" Because after this, we're watching two episodes of the latest seasonof The Angels," Laura says smugly. "As a sort-of payback." Fair enough," I shrug. "I actually kinda like the show, and not. "Look, you're soaked," Dusty said. "I'll take you to my place. You can have a bath and I'll make dinner." No, you can take me home," Shari said, pulling wet strands of hair out of her face."I insist," Dusty said.There was a warm stirring inside of Shari. Bathing and having dinner made for her really sounded a lot better than going home, fighting to get a chance at the bathroom, and bickering with her mother. Whatever Dusty had in mind, Shari knew she could control it. Nothing would happen that. “I never know how much I'm gonna drink at things like this so I rented a room. I don't want to have to drive home drunk.”“Sounds like a good plan to me.”About this time, the elevator arrived. No one else was waiting to board, so after the people who were inside exited, we entered and had the cubicle all to ourselves.After she inserted a key she'd taken from her purse into the elevator's control panel, turned it. “This will take us up to the penthouse level, Gloria said. She pulled me close and. " G'day. My name's Morgan. I'm Shirl's dad. We met several years ago." Right. I remember you. How's Shirl?" She's fine. She's in Brisbane. Her boss in The Alice got her a fellowship and she got a Diploma in Plant Protection. Now she's finishing her doctorate in Agricultural Science." That's a smart girl." Yep. Those post-graduate programmes run around twenty thousand a year, and she hasn't cost us anything." But that's not why you called." No. There's a guy who's looking to buy some acreage.