..from somebody's desk."I followed her gaze and picked up the one she was looking at. "Like this?" Yes." Where did you put it?" In...in my purse." Wha... purse?"She thought a moment, then turned and rooted through her closet, coming up with a fairly large black cloth purse. "This one." I handed her the CD player and she put it into the purse."Alright. What's your name?"Without hesitating she said, "Maria Santiago."I gave her a smile. "Good. Now, Maria, I want you to go outside." I pointed. "Maria. Rufus was sure as hell going to come for John eventually, and me as soon as he healed, it had been like I said a case of self defense.I found everything as I had left it. The batteries had drained only slightly, so they were up and ready to power the bike within the first half hour. I returned to the house to warm up before I rode it to Fred and Alice’s house.I stayed in the house long enough to drink more coffee and put on a thermal sweater and nylon windbreaker type jacket for the ride next. "I love all of you." Prepare for landing," the captain said.We landed at Crowley Air Force Base in Nevada and were greeted by a Colonel Reich; it was 0100 hours but we were too energized with the enormity of what we were about to do to be tired. We were hustled off the field quickly and a few moments later a blue and white 747 landed on the runway behind us.From the air the base seemed to consist of only a few nondescript buildings. But once we were inside a glass elevator took us to a vast. I could only stare at her and answer, “God, Patty, that is really sexy. You are one hot chick.” With that she came over to the sofa and flopped down on my right side with her left leg tucked up under her. In doing so, because of the short skirt, I caught a full view of her white panties before she casually tugged at the skirt to cover herself…that is, as much as she could cover with as little material there was in that skirt.“So, you think I am pretty hot, huh?” She fished for more compliments..