In her act of turning, he froze. She stared at his boyish expression and smiled. This was not the coy smile of a young maiden with downcast eyes. She ...tared directly into his eyes and her lips curled over her porcelain teeth. She was a lioness in heat. It was all he could do to stop himself from ejaculating in his breeches."You can give up your ruse now, I know you're following me.” Richelieu’s reverie was broken. He umm-ed and ahh-ed. His attempts at making an excuse were awful at best."What. " I got up. "We'll be back in an hour or so." And we went outside.Outside, Weena asked: "Why'd you want to go?" Don't you get what Charlie's doing?" He's trying to organize his station." No, dear. He's trying for a corporate merger." Hunh?" He's going to get Maddy to agree to take down that fence, to renovate the five bores — possibly putting in solar power — and get married." Married?" Yep. They've slept together, right? Didn't seem to have any problems, right? And that would sure solve any. "I suggest we make a date to go down to the Python this comingFriday; both dressed to the nines and ready to knock them in the aisles!"I took a decision. "OK, you're on!" I said, and we shook hands on thedeal.It was coming up to the end of term and I had quite a few assignments tocomplete for my University course, so I didn't have much time to broodover the next few days. In fact I was somewhat surprised to return homelate on the Friday afternoon to discover that our "deal" was upon us andthat. ." Dad will be waiting for you, mom," the girl reminded her. "If you don't go and join him in bed soon, he's going to come looking for you." Yes, but . . ."Ruth agreed with her sister on this. "Don't worry, mom. It's just a little delay. Tomorrow, when he's off playing golf, we'll have plenty of time to get to know each other a little better."Their mother looked as if she was about to cry, but also knew that her daughters were right. There was no way in the world that she wanted Roger to know.