After a moment I added, "but it isn't the end of the world." Neither was giving a powerful older man a little head," she informed me smiling."Neither ...was that," I admitted. We did hang out for a couple of more hours before her date came to pick her up. The kid was more or less her own age. For some reason they left her car in my parking lot. I expect it was because she was spending the night with him somewhere and didn't want her dad to know. Hell I didn't really want to know either. I was. I hadn't realised how much I had missed Ellse. There had always been some sort of sexual buzz between us. She would have shagged me back then, but I couldn't see past Annalise, and I think it was this that made her so provocative towards me, always teasing me with her looks, stroking my hair whenever she went past me, and promising unlimited sexual delight in her whispered come- ons.She'd put on a bit of weight since I last saw her, but she was still a very attractive woman. Those flashing eyes. The way I was feeling it could not have been more welcomehad it been the Savoy Hotel. I was beat. Benton had made no allowance forhis legs being so much longer than mine and keeping up with him hadreally taken it out of me. When we had cautiously circled the barn tomake sure no one else was around, we went inside."This will do," said Benton after he had checked out every nook andcranny of the inside and satisfied himself that no one lay in wait forus.I sank down on a pile of old straw and. “Tell us what? What news? You’re not making any sense.”I stepped closer to mom, intent on walking her to the living room so we could talk. However, I was interrupted when someone else stepped out of the kitchen. I remembered the Ford pickup parked in the driveway and forgot that we might have company. I didn’t recognize the truck because it was new. I didn’t know the owner because I hadn’t seen her near it before. Yet the sight of Lisa Hartwell staring back at me caused all of the gears in my.