15 huge ropes shot up over my head, over the laundry floor and the front entry floor. Jude missed out this time on a new cum-dress. Quickly I grabbed ...a towel that was waiting its turn in the wash, swiping it around the floors just in the nick of time. Mom was done and opened the bathroom door just as I threw the towel back in the basket.Jude, still goggle eyed at my huge load, sensed and read the scene extremely well. She stayed put, kind of hiding I guess, until mom had gone inside. Just. . have to work in a couple of days.”Kiki laughed at her awkwardness, leaned in, and gave her one soft, final kiss. “All right. Get home safe, Althea.”And that had been it. Althea had worked for another month on Fisher Island and been in a dozen more calls with Nick, but he never mentioned that night. He called her by name several times during those calls, but he seemed to make it a point of pride to know everybody’s name. She had seen Kiki in print and on the Internet many times since then and. I was left feeling somewhat battered and bruised. Sam came back to meand pushed me about Mike. We had less than sixteen weeks left. We hadfailed with the police, so now I had to go after Mike. I was beingpushed towards my fate. I phoned Mike and agreed to spend the afternoonand evening with him on Saturday. He was happy as a sand boy.Martin asked why we had dropped the police route. When we told him whathad happened he muttered about contacts he had made in Europe in his oldjob.As the week went. Nothing you did not want to do Mr Hardy. he surmised, Did you not consider sneaking back after mid night. You might have climbed a drain pipe or sneaked in the servants entrance. You might have slipped into Serenas bed chamber. You might have bared her and ravished her if you were not so punctillious and determined not to offend. Bared her and ravished her? I demanded. Indeed Hardy, I read your thoughts. he confessed, The bulge in your breeches. The tender way you held her. Good lord no sir, it.