At that, Stella sat up and looked around. Immediately, Jacko handed her the wine bottle and, without hesitation, Stella put it to her lips and took qu...ite a long drink before lying back down again.This time, my eyes took in Stella's legs. I had never seen her in shorts before and, as I sipped at the wine bottle, I studied her thighs. They were paler than her calves, but shapely and smooth and my eyes were inexorably drawn to the very top, where they disappeared inside her denim beach shorts.Her. The worst part about her was that she had never lost the weight that she gained during pregnancy. Hence, she had a bulging middle section and a puffed up face with a significant double chin. On the flip side she was really fair and wore smart clothes. And she had the most beautiful smile. She had perfect teeth and her eyes twinkled when she laughed. Now my description doesn’t flatter her at all. But let me just say that she was pretty in every sense of that word. She had just stopped caring. "Tammy can get him up", Sarah offered, "That way you and I can hang out for a bit."Normally there was no way that I'd send a young girl into my son's bedroom knowing that he was probably in just his underwear, but there was something in the way this young beauty smiled at me when she said it. "Do you know which room is his?"The little blonde beamed a huge grin at me and spoke for the first time, "I sure do!" Looking back, that grin and the way she positively bounced as she headed gleefully down. A granite slab a mile thick stood between our location and the base’s radio receiver, effectively blocking out our signal. The steady hiss of static ruled the airwaves. Alice handed me the radio’s microphone and instructed me to repeat the call to base every five minutes.Backing up the steep slope was a royal pain in the ass. Reverse gears are slow, and the best speed our Mule could manage up the incline was not much faster than a slow walk. Our retreat finally paid off when we came to a wide.