By the way, I made you up a logo and a letterhead and a template for the quote program. I hope they suit you. I didn't know what you were going to cal... your business, so I decided on Silvers Automation Consulting." That sounds good, Mad. That reminds me, I need to get a business license under that name and I'll need to open a bank account for the business also. Is there anything else you can think of that I'll need to do?" Well, if it were me, I think I'd like to get a web site going for the. "You know," I said into the quiet, "it was really hard for me. To findout you were..." A girl? Sorry." I wish... you'd said something earlier." What difference would it have made?" I loved you." Loved?" Shit, Alex. I'm no lesbian!"She snorted miserably. "It was all so fucking horrible. Elise, you werefucking awful and that was the worst."Which hurt, with its truth."You don't understand. I gave my heart, mind and body to you and all thetime you were... pretending." Never my love for you."Quiet. That was really the first time he had looked at her face and he saw that she was a very attractive young woman. He determined that she was only fourteen and that she lived on the far side of town. Her name was Rosa."What made you stop in here to steal from this store?" No one knows who I am in this part of town." Why would that matter?" Because I am not supposed to leave my neighborhood, and if people saw me who knew me, they would call my mother, and then I would be I trouble."Jerry looked at. His eyes wandered to my lips and he commented on what a pretty mouth I had. Said he had always admired it and should like very much to kiss it. My gaze dropped to the bulge in his lap and my heart threatened to beat out of my chest. Before I could gather my thoughts his mouth was hot upon mine and I was instinctively parting my lips to invite his determined tongue inside. A potent cocktail of adrenaline and dopamine rushed to my head and I felt more alive than I ever had before. An intense wave.