Abby worked from home making sure that the script was ready for the first read through, while I called in every contractor in the area to get another ...uilding retrofitted to handle large property.No matter how tight scheduling got, I always left for lunch and either met Abby and George at home, or they drove in and met me somewhere so the three of us could stay current on all the happenings. George was tough, but the bombing of our studio by his ex-wife hit him very hard. Abby was the perfect. "Jean says I can leave after work on Thursday and, Mark darling, she's so thrilled about our engagement that she's given me the whole of next week off as well." Yippee!" whooped Mark, dancing a little jig."And she wants us to come to supper when we get back. Isn't that sweet of her?" It certainly is," agreed Mark. "Oh, I'm so happy. I was still worried about you rattling round in that big house all on your own." Only forty-eight hours. I can't wait." Nor can I. How do you want to play it? Drive. After checking on the guards around Sadie's house I hurried to mine. I almost silently approached, only softly whispering, “Pablo....Pablo,” when he answered from the stable. “Here, senor. I have been sleeping and watching from here. They can't get a clear shot at me here. All the windows have been shot out except here in the back where the stable is in the way. At night I have moved as much as I could to inner rooms, so there isn't as much damage as they wanted.” “You're a good man, Pablo,. "Confidence is very sexy."He looked back to his bespectacled father and the lovely lady by him on the couch and thought that the grinning old man must have some idea about what he was saying, or he never would have convinced the younger woman to a date, much less to marry him. Janice was fifteen years younger then his father, smoking hot and the subject of quite a few of Duncan's late night stroke sessions, though the teen had tried to avoid that since the couple had married and she had.