"Would you like a cup of coffee, Mrs. Conroy?" Please, for today just call me Janice, and a cup of coffee would be nice. Just a little cream please. I... want to thank you for being discreet about the affair. Nothing good would have come out of it if the truth were known. I got a call from the insurance company and they asked me to talk to you about settling the matter." Janice, I don't want your money. I just want it over with so my family and I can go on with our lives." Andy, you will get. Mom was hanging in renewed appreciation of the buzzing vibrator. I grasped the edge of the door and leaned back into the hallway."I'm charging some equipment for work tomorrow. Will the buzz from the charger bother you?" What buzzing?"I disappeared behind the door, turned the vibrator up a click with an immediate reaction from Mom, then leaned back into the hallway."That buzzing." No, that's fine. It won't bother me but you better ask your mother when she comes up. She might not like it." Okay. I can't remember what I said,but I must have sounded pretty desperate at that point, and begged her tocheck again. She laughed and said no - she was sure. I was defeated -there would be no job and I would lose my flat. But then she said:"You know, I could fit you in this evening after hours if you're reallydesperate?"I couldn't thank her enough! She laughed, and booked me in for 8:30.Success!--The salon was large and airy, and seemed very quiet when the door closedbehind me. I was greeted by. He had been patient, kind and understanding. She knew he got frustrated with the waiting, but he never pressured her. As much as she did her best to demonstrate how much that meant to her, she was sure it pained him every time she shied away from his advances.“I-I missed you too,” she giggled, tried to pretend that everything was fine, but it was an empty action. Her heart was rabbiting inside her chest, adrenaline surged in her veins as the plasma picked her up, all of the 105 pounds of her,.