My cabin was on a spike of land that was surrounded by National Forest. “Good morning Tom.” “ Well Dan didn't expect to see you up here already....��“Hang on and I will get the fire going and make some coffee.”As I built the fire and got the coffee going I told Tom It was just too lonely at home. And if I was going to be alone I might as well be doing something I enjoyed. I poured us both a cup of black coffee and Tom agreed with me, “Well Dan how long you expect to be up here this time.”“Don't. Might be a lord or something. Seems very friendly and definitely has an eye for the younger lady.”“Yeah he’s not alone in that,” I replied. I thought about going to see how Hollie was doing but she seemed fine talking to the two older guys. She even seemed to be flirting with them a little, which kind of scared me and turned me on at the same time.I also chatted for a while with Lauren and Jemima who were both clearly getting quite drunk and had also turned a bit flirty. I could not keep my. I need to get shit-faced drunk. I need to convince myself not to drive into a bridge abutment on the way to work tommorrow." Yeah, I'd been thinking about that. I had good insurance. Double indemnity would twice fill the hole where I'd been in our family."Come to bed baby. Everything will look better in the morning."My boss Dan, with his wife Elanore, stopped by my desk at quitting time. "We'd like to invite you to a party this evening," he said. "I've hired entertainment, and I promise fun,. ”Nick wanted to ask her to call him desirable again. It sounded so good in her accent. But, he was afraid she would. He needed to be more careful with people who worked for him. His Monday night meeting with Ainsley had taken a lot out of him and was probably just the tip of that particularly twisted iceberg.“Can you tell me anything about factotum training?” he asked instead. “The whole program seems a bit mysterious.”“I don’t think there’s anything mysterious about the training. It’s sixteen.