She talked about all she had heard and seen of my visit to Colton's! She talked about the rumors of getting hit up in the parking lot at work by Tyree... About the rumors of my doing someone in the executive office and about the new 'clearance' project. Rumors that it was all about Black Power surveillance by the NSA or some new agency that was even more secret. She talked about things I wondered could be true - then thought why would SHE know? Then I thought about ALL the guys who bought her. I could tell she was impressed with me, and that pleased me. We sipped our wine and talked idly, then finally she said that it was time she joined the girls in bed, and I yawned as I nodded, I was tired myself. She stood up, then did a very unexpected thing, because she leaned down and kissed my upturned face, before I knew what was happening. She whispered: “Goodnight Paige.” and then she was halfway up the stairs before I could re-act. To say that I was surprised would hardly cover it, I was. Spinning wildlydownward I began firing my thrusters trying to level myself out. I wasjust above the roof tops when I finally leveled out and was about tospread my wings to fly off again when I looked up in time to see hisuni-beam hit me. One minute, I was up in the air above the town, thenext, I was lying in a crumpled heap in the cratered remains of a truck.Before I could get my wits back, the Hulk Buster landed on me, causingme to sink further into the ground. Getting off, he reached down. He is president of his company and he is a very important man in this community. When he divorces that wife of his, I will marry him and I will be on the arm of a powerful man." It sounded almost rehearsed.Bill silently thanked Marion. She was making this much easier. He was repulsed by her comments and the complete lack of shame at her actions. It was time to deliver a few of the facts of life.He took a white legal-size envelope out of his pocket and passed it to her. "Tomorrow, you will be.