“Nah,” Casey smiled “Trevor’s ancient history. He told Rowie he was too young for a serious relationship.” She made eye contact, and added, ...��I think that’s code for ‘I want to fuck some other girls for a while.” “Why are you telling me this?” I asked. “She’s been hinting at getting together with us,” Casey smiled mischievously. My heart sank, for a moment. “You haven’t told her anything, have you?” I asked, seriously. “No!” Casey said, indicating that was out of the question, “But she’s. Also, one day you might actually strike paydirt. You never know, she always reminded them.The problem was that Joanna, or Jo as she liked to sign her work, had come by on the worst possible of days. A good part of the office had come down with some sort of virus and everyone who was left was scrambling to take up the slack against a rapidly approaching deadline.Karen had suggested that she come back another day, but Jo insisted she would wait. She had used almost all of her savings for the bus. ”“Most people would have looked for a place to rent.”“Benny is not like most people.”“So how long will you keep up the pretext of being Cathy’s boyfriend?”“Until it is safe.”“Well, I appreciate what you two have done for my girls.”Benny frowned. “I thought you only had one daughter. I don’t remember doing anything for your other daughter.”Tim said, “He’s talking about Cathy.”“She’s not his daughter.”“Is he for real?”“Yes.”“I bought her a present,” Benny said out of the blue.“You did?” Tim asked. He was an infrequent visitor to her busy office, once maybe twice a month, she admitted that she would glance over the expanse of the open office with every new arrival hoping to make eye contact and thinking of an excuse to leave her desk and have a new “accidental” encounter with him. She doesn’t even know his name, but gave a painfully detailed description of him when I asked what he was like and why she thought he had that effect on her when so few had before, his broad strong shoulders,.