He was woken up about an hour later by a nudge and looking up he saw Kate crouched above his bed and grinning at him.“Did you miss us?” she whispe...ed. David grinned in the gloom. If only she knew!“Of course I did!” he quickly replied. Kate leaned down and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.“Mum’s been in bed for half an hour now so why don’t you come and join us?” David was excited at the prospect and quickly jumped out of bed, following Kate across the room. He suddenly realized Kate was. ‘I need to decompress, get my head together, and your place seems perfect. I’ll pay for my room of course.’ Her anxious expression changed to one of relief, and he knew he’d been right. She met his gaze with determined sincerity. ‘I think you should stay, too… and get some rest. I’d like that very much.’ Pulling out the traveler’s checks from her bib pocket once again, she said, ‘I’ll keep these. Consider yourself paid in full for at least… another day,’ and laughed. ‘Fair enough. And after. And then I paid Wendy back for shooting me again, big time, because Ididn't need to worry about getting wet anymore. And when I went inside, Iwent with a towel wrapped around me, and I put on that old trapeze dressof yours with the three inch stripes of all different colors that are allsewn together. You remember it. It is way too small, but it comes acouple of inches below my butt and, except that I can't get the topbutton fastened, it would make a real cute top for like with pedalpushers or. I'm taking up all your time, and you're not even getting paid." Josh, you paid all my expenses on this trip! I've been eating in good restaurants, living in hotels I would never book with my own money. You don't owe me anything." Now that we're back, I'm still going to want you to come to the games. I know that eats into your free time. I want to pay you something." You're only back here for a week," Sandy said, "and then you guys are traveling again to Toronto and Atlanta. Josh, with or.