Anytime she felt like she was falling for him, she would summon up some anger and it would help her focus. It was a trick that had been working for th... past two years. “I am here for a training session. We hired someone new and they couldn’t come to me, so I came here.” Her breath caught as he lowered his six-foot frame into the chair opposite her desk and casually placed his hands behind his head, leaning back as if he was reclining at home.Watching his dress shirt stretch over his biceps and. We had agreed on ten bucks an hour after my hip surgery. I always made sure to over pay him. I hoped that he would want to work for me again because of it.Nothing much happened before Effie showed up at my door without Jon a couple of days later. “Hi Mr. Rogers. I need to take some measurements of your spare room,” she said.“Do you need me to hold the tape?” I asked.“No Sir, I’m fine,” she said walking back to my extra bedroom. I watched the breaking news on the computer, while she took her. He was working in Portland, Oregon, and I was working in Southern California at the time. I had called him up to see what he was doing, and he asked me if I'd like to come up and work on the job he was on, as he was friends with the boss man and there would be no trouble getting on.As I was out of work at the time, I told him I would talk to the wife and see if she wanted to move up there for awhile, as we were just renting and wouldn't take much to load up and move.My wife thought it was a. Carbon? Why not. But silicon, iron, and--he noticed for the first time--sulfur and magnesium? No fucking way. Hydrogen levels were also way,way down. There was simply no way an EGG could contain heavy elementsthose concentrations, and that hydrogen value, well, that was justtotally insane. He'd obviously fucked something up. But where the hellwere these bogus results coming from? As quickly as he formulated thequestion, the answer came to him: Alpha Orionis, of course. The damnthing was a.