We were soon miles from any main road & surrounded by trees. Chrissie had sidled up beside me and started to stroke my hair saying how beautiful it wa...s & complementing my golden skin. Her other hand rested gently on my leg. Where I come from, women didn't usually get so close but, when in Rome...The van stopped & Suzie giggled, "Ready or not, here I come!"I turned back to Chrissie whose face was so close that it brushed against mine as I turned back. I immediately apologized but she just. Jon usually never noticed anyone, but this man demanded attention. Sharp features. Intense gaze. "Hello there. My name is Nathan." Jon's fingers tightened around the handle. His heartbeat quickened. Who was this guy? What did he want. God, why did his voice make Jon's belly flutter. "Relax." Nathan smiled and placed his hand over Jon's. "I saw you making your selecting...and well...I'm curious." "I-I'm Jon. What are you curious about, sir." Lust spears Nathan when the word 'sir' falls so easily. “We will meet again when there’s something new to discuss.” She stood and smiled at her husband, Gerrard. “I’m ready to go home.”Abby and I stood from our chairs and stretched as the meeting ended. In the six months since we’d moved to San Antonio, we’d found another ten people traveling the interstates, just like the rest of us, the last pair arriving two months ago. It was interesting that no one had encountered any lone survivors, I’d thought.Of the twenty-one people in our group, four were. He was alone now, the visitor had disapeared.I was sure I had not imagined it, maybe he had been talking on hismobile phone earlier? Anyway he carried on as normal, asking me to fixus both a drink and enquiring how my last couple of days had been.We sat in the kitchen chatting for about thirty minutes or so. I toldhim all about my time with the girls, obviously leaving out the exactdetails of the garments and jewellery I now possessed. He was pleasedthat I now had everything I needed to wear on.