He held it up to show Apollo the mess. Apollo leaned forward and licked a swath of it off. Travis laughed and copied Apollo. They both licked the rema...nder of the icing off, their tongues sometimes touching.When the jar was mostly cleaned Travis set it aside and pulled out two pieces of chicken. They had smudges of chocolate on them too, but neither of them objected.“Which one you want” Travis inquired.Apollo shrugged. “They looks the same.”Travis handed him one and bit into the other. Apollo. I’m going to talk to a recruiter I met back when I was still at IIT. A man named Steve Markman who works for Pencom Systems.”“So, we’re going outside.”“Yes, unless you can make a strong argument for someone internal.”“I can’t, for the reasons we discussed a few weeks ago.”“Then I’ll give him a call this afternoon and we’ll start the search. We can always change our mind up to the last moment. Pencom does commission-based searches, so we only pay if we hire someone they bring to us.”“OK. Let me. .. to tell you."I managed a single response. "A story?"Vicki was the quickest this time. "Yeah, a story." Not just any story." Nope." Our story." Yeah." So shut up." And listen." This last was a giggling Heather, from the front of the car. I was mesmerised.It had been another exhausting day. Jake liked the work on the farm, and was pleased to have something to carry him over for a little longer, but the days were dirty, long, and hard. Mr Walker was a good boss, but he worked pretty hard. ‘I didn’t figure you guys would be back until almost daylight.’ ‘Nora got bored,’ Dean replied. His sharp tone of voice clearly displayed his displeasure at having to leave the reception. ‘Oh, wow, that’s a bummer,’ Cindy said. Nora stomped to the stairs and started up to their bedroom. Dean got the young woman’s coat out of the hall closet and held it for her. As she slid into it, her hand brushed his groin lightly. Dean was startled by the teen-ager’s gesture. ‘Was that an accident?’ he.