“You don’t come here often?” “Of all the gin joints in all the world?” he teased, his eyebrow arched. “No. I’m from Canberra; I’m just...passing through. I’m doing a lap of the country, briefing tenderers on a competitive grants round we’re running.” ‘So he’ll have a hotel then,’ she guessed. ‘And judging by the look of him, it’ll be a nice one.’ But what she wasn’t quite sure of, was whether the gold band on his left hand was going to waste her time or not. Despite her agenda, Wendy was. My feet began to tingle as his hands massage each of them.The next pair of shoes were little tight so I tried on another pair. This time he said, “Lets try a different pair of socks on? These aren’t as thick as the other one was.”His hand slid down my legs from the knee as he grabbed each of the socks I had on. He then put another pair of socks on my feet. This time his hand continued to slide up my leg going underneath my dress. He finally stop his hand hit my inner thigh. I was stunned and. I was not showing off when I let the Sismac get within 100 yards of me before I fired my first shot. That was necessary because of the relatively limited range of the shotgun. I saw the impact of the slug in the breast of the Sismac because of the plume of dust, feathers, and blood that seemed to burst from the creature. Surely, that was enough to kill the creature, but it kept running toward me.Oh, shit, that was when I remembered how long it took a chicken to die completely, even when its. .. ?"I just scooped another fork of eggs into my mouth."Not really ... I'm going out with Sheila tonight," I said, "and won't be back until late."My mom just nodded. I knew that even though my father wouldn't be back until the end of the week, she'd keep herself quite busy with all of her meetings."You are doing laundry?"I nodded not really wanting to get into the details."Yeah I had some clothes to do," I said, "and I just am finishing up this morning ... I fell asleep while starting a load.