She had been lightly cramping for two days but had passed that off as having strained herself lifting supplies off of the shelves at the assisted livi...ng center. The leak started as a few drips on the third day and then by mid afternoon, blood was everywhere.Sam was on hand with Midol and soft warm towels to hold against Greta's tummy, but after being nude for 'forever' Greta's problem was how to handle a flow that would not be contained with tampons. She literally did not own a stitch of. " shetrailed off as she saw her parents' faces. Where was a mad bomberwhen you needed one? "Um... that group they captured yesterday, the ones on the news? Theywere the same ones that tried to grab me a couple of days ago. Thepeople we were talking about being a kidnapping threat, remember? Ourteam and the ASA guys..." "Wait a minute. ASA guys?" her father interrupted. "Lena says they're some sort of secret international agency orsomething. Kind of like Interpol I guess. Anyhow, the ASA guys. We used to play together but that time she was not that bulky. I went in kept my luggage and settled on sofa.I asked her about aunty and her brother. She replied that her brother is at his college and aunty was in kitchen. And then aunty entered in the hall with a glass of water in a tray and a seductive smile on her face, wearing a maroon coloured kurta and black leggings but no dupatta. I never remembered her being that seductive. She used to be average built, dusky lady but now she was bit. Then run like hell."He was joking, of course, but he'd caught Marcia's feelings exactly.Phoebe, treating the entire episode as something of a lark, startedwhistling, comically pantomiming normality. They piled into the trucklike they were making a get-away from a bank heist. It was mostly in funbut they didn't truly breathe a sigh of relief until they were back ontothe interstate. Later they would come to call it their "Great Escape,"and it would forever after form the basis of a lasting bond.