’ His emotions showed on his face at her words, and he went to get the sheets. They made the bed together in the guest room in silence, both glad ju...t to be together. Lawrence disappeared then, and she just sat on the bed. Lawrence returned with some of the things she’d left behind that she’d never bothered to pick up. Lori had picked up a few of her things after she’d walked out but the other things she tried to forget about. He remembered that she like to read at night and brought in her. The gesture let Tim know the conversation was a code in case there were any electronic listening devices in the home still active that they never found. Tim gave a quick thumbs-up with his answer to show he got the message. Both men stood up, went to the garage and entered the Faraday cage George had built.Once inside, George explained further, “Jensen did invite us all to his uncle’s ranch for the weekend. We are all taking Friday off from work to drive up that morning and probably come home. **** I'd married Janine fifteen years before, and for ten of those years we'd been okay, or, so I'd thought. But, over the last several years, ever since her promotion, I'd become pretty much just a financial contributor to the household and little else. The lesser contributor if it came to that; she made more than I did. We'd had no children, but we did have a number of nieces and nephews: the offspring of her sisters, Bethany and Clarisse, the aforementioned Harley was Clarisse's husband. . ? She must have felt something strange too, because her nipples seemed to stiffen slightly (although this might be my memory playing tricks on me), but I could not have cared less.? My hands tried to move away from her breasts – I wanted to touch the rest of her as well, but they kept kneading, rubbing, sliding around.? I kept my gaze right at her eyes.? Sometimes she met it; sometimes she looked down or away.When at last I could take my hands away from her tender breasts, I raised my right.