Let's go babe." They drove back to Schofield Barracks. Not all the way, because Ashley lived off base with Molly. Jacob took her to her apartment buil...ing, and got out to walk her to the entrance. They kissed good night, and then parted for the time being. Ashley made her way up the second floor and opened her apartment door. As she entered she heard Molly yelling out loud. At first, her instinct was to go into battle mode. But she quickly decided what she was hearing was actually Molly in the. "Yep, sometimes the snow gets so deep a man can't walk through it. Times like that, we just hole up. Trappers use snow shoes to get around, but most of us just stay indoors." Have you seen any other strangers go through here in the last month or so?" I asked."No. Can't say I have." We're supposed to meet my brother at Plumbago Mountain. We must be ahead of him. He said Plumbago Mountain was close to here." Yep. It's just to the east. Not more than five or ten miles." How would we get there from. While I was shaving I did some thinking and I'd like to make you an offer but first, am I right that you hate this agency job?" Yes," she said quietly but decisively."In that case, how would you like free accommodation here?"She smiled wanly. "No, Bill, thank you all the same. At least with the agency job I'm my own person except when I'm with a client." You would be here. I'm not asking you to be my mistress. You would have your own room, be free to come and go as you please and entertain. 'Blustering and red faced, Walter protested 'That sounds bad. I didn't want to waste my life is all.'Nodding in acceptance, Jessie continued introducing the survivors. She gestured to the girl, who was rubbing her left elbow with a wet cloth, wincing each time at what I guessed was a burn. Every now and then she went into a hacking cough. At any other time I'd be staring at her body in the flimsy clothing and at her breasts as they quivered with her coughing, but my stomach was still twisted.