Veronica was the slowest. Eventually, she understood she had even footing with a career politician like Morgan Robertson and career military like Haro...d Richards. That had to be eye opening. Veronica was much more in tune with manipulating the system than with running it. It made her one of my most effective brakes. She could see all the potential abuse before we had to endure it. If Veronica vetted a project, it stayed vetted.The social dynamics of my company would be a publishable paper, if I. .. hello," Howard replied. "My name's Howard." Call him Howie," Ralph said. "And this here's Linda." Pleased to meet you, Howie," Linda said, smiling. "Where's my 'laughing widow, ' Ralph?"Ralph snapped his fingers and gave the waitress an order for two more double bourbons and two "laughing widows." Howard asked what the hell a laughing widow was and Bonnie giggled, explaining that it was three dashes of bitters, one part gin, two parts vodka, and a pearl onion. Howard grimaced, which caused. This is my house" he said with a attitude. Shannon closed the door and laughed nervously "oh nothing just came to talk to Maleka about some stuff"' she said waving her hand like it was no big deal. Kevin looked her up and down again then squinted his eye "uhm-hm" he said. This is the fifth time this week Kevin had caught her over here wearing just a tank top and boxers and she knew he was getting suspicious. He started to walk up the steps and Shannon caught his arm on the second step. ''Hey". That meant a half hour each morning and a half hour each evening to be in each other’s arms, kissing, and when nobody was looking, slipping a hand down each other’s pants and feeling how much we turned each other on. Sometimes, we would leave home a little early so we would have time to go somewhere where we could and did make love. Or meet-up at lunch time for a nooner. We obviously couldn’t make love at either of our homes, with spouses and nosy neighbors to find out about us. And these.