Now myparents have both been deceased for about 10 years so there isnothing for me in Newkirk and I had too many men staring at me."There was a knock ...nd there was Amy, Lillian, and Elbert and they allhugged and Amy squealed again.Amy blushed and everybody laughed and Regina had to give her an extrahug.Pastor and Sandra Roberts said, "Last year when you disappeared wethought we would never see you again. Had the sheriff's departmentsearching for you but now you are in real estate and have a. Ginger seemed oblivious to the tensions that raged through Shadow. She was too busy dealing with tensions of her own. At night, she would lie in bed rubbing herself to get rid of some the tension that raged through her. As far as she was concerned, Shadow was a fantasy come true. She wondered how many women could possibly find a man that would take such good care of her.As time went by, the sexual tension in the air became thick enough to cut with a knife. Their conversations became longer and. They seemed to have slower metabolisms and existed happily enough on a reduced food input than compared to a human. Joshua resembled a voracious locust in comparison. He wasn't putting any weight on, and had even managed to loose some. It appeared that his body needed a lot of Tau foodstuff just to get by.He sat down at his usual spot away from the other dinners, so it was a surprise when a tray was placed opposite his on the table. No one ever sat with him, unless it was another human visiting. He shook the man's hand again and they both said they might see each other again some day and the Marshal left the sheriff to go back to his card game.Bennet did go talk to Bernice Abernathy, who was all a-twitter when she realized this important man wanted her opinion. She remembered the man he was asking about well."He came in here out of the blue one day and bought two dresses and seeds for a garden," she said. "The poor boy didn't have the faintest idea what to get. I had to tell him what.