He wanted to hit somebody, but, corralled his rage.She wanted to hold him with all her might, to shade his eyes against her chest. Both had watched in...abject horror. ---------The meal was good, but, neither could nor would remember it. Conversation drew to the station even though both knew that was "against the rules." Dessert, Mr. Grant?" Mary had made chocolate pudding, cooked She'd finished clearing the table as he'd taken anchor. "No."---------He'd only been in her bedroom once before; to. Then a car stopped in front of the house. It was a convertible, and HE was in it.He just left his c***dhood home and was on his way to his new adult home. He saw me and decided to stop and say hello.The first few moments were very awkward. Which you would expect. That soon passed and we caught each other up on our lives. I got married a year earlier. He was already divorced from wife number one. We soon ran out of news to share and I assumed that was it but then I saw him smile. I knew that. "Sometimes, but only very little," Mike replied."Well, I wouldn't want Rachel to ruin her dress," Jeff said. He turned to me and said, "Take the dress off."The waxing was one thing, that was a woman and she was used to seeing women like that. This was different! It was a man, a stranger! Only the second man who would see me naked since puberty! I was mortified! On the other hand, this was what I had asked for, and I wasn't sure if I was more embarrassed for the man to see me naked, or to see. So the tally was still five to four in Patti's favour and Francine was definitely not getting stronger as her blood flowed down both legs. Patti was using her right arm again and looking dangerous. Francine's chivalrous gesture was likely to cost her dear!Then Patti once more tried to finish her opponent and left a gap in her defence which Francine spotted with all the hawk-eyed desperation of the soon to be vanquished. She lunged at Patti's stomach and opened a deep wound. Patti was silly.