She leaned on my shoulder and broke down."Oh, honey — I think your father is having an affair with a girl in his office. He's 'working late' way too... much lately, I just ... don't know what to do about it?" I could get my Reggie Jackson baseball bat and beat him up for you. Maybe just a kneecap, something to give him pause," I said.That caused her to giggle a bit, and I saw her radiant smile for the first time in a while."Mom, why don't you confront him about it?" I reasoned."He may just decide. It wasn’t a fair exchange, but I figured only good things could happen if I was naked. As I lay on my back, Pam began caressing me all over. The caressing turned to a barrage of tickles—on my feet, arms, sides, neck, and legs. Because I’m abnormally ticklish, I began squirming like a little girl. My squirming sent Pam into a frenzy, and she began laughing like a maniac. She suggested handcuffs, which I immediately dismissed. As a compromise she put my arms back. With my legs spread, my body was. Ret discovered by snooping in the minds of the kidnappers, that the man who hired them planned to use the girl as leverage against the government. It didn’t work out very well for him. Linda dropped the girl off and hunted down the man responsible for the family’s pain. He died a violent death, hanging upside down out of his fancy office building’s window. His feet were secured to his heavy desk by wiring so he wouldn’t fall. The man had a deep cut running from his sternum to his groin. Tink. Cheryl was dressed and was packing up her bag frantically. I walked over and took it from her and dropping it on the bed. I wrapped her in a hug which made her stiffen. “Hey,” I said soothingly. “You did NOT chase me out of my bed. I got up early to take the dog out for her walk. I didn’t sleep upstairs and I wasn’t uncomfortable with you here. Stop packing.”“I made a mess of everything yesterday,” she said. “I’ve been babbling about how much I want you and then when I get here, I can’t go.