"Know," she told him. "We'll bring Bill along too, he'll have a blast. In fact, let's invite your whole family. Bill's too. It's all on me." Mindy," h...e said, "my family is never going to let you pay for a trip to Vegas for them. Neither is Bill's."She shrugged. "I wouldn't be paying for anything, really. They'll fly us out there and give us suites in the hotel. All I'll be providing them with is their casino chips." How much in casino chips?" Don't worry about that," she said. "I can afford it.. It's his way of pressurin' us to sell him the rights to the coal-gas." You want to bet the price he's willin' to give us for those rights has dropped a whole hell-of-a-lot?" Rance suggested. "This is a classic squeeze play, and I'll be damned if I'm goin' to let him get away with it." What can we do?" I asked, worried that this looked very bad."I've got an ace up my sleeve that Dexter doesn't know anythin' about," Rance replied. "I'm just wonderin' whether to play it." What are you thinking,. ‘You’re my favorite,’ she purred. — I leaned down, and put the flowers against her headstone. My knees shook, and I cursed myself for not wearing thicker pants, or for carrying a portable body-heater. Damn technology never does you any good, if it’s not around. Michael laid his flowers down gingerly, hands shaking. He was always emotional about coming out here. It’s why I didn’t like going with him, but I would never tell him that. Part of the reason is that I would get emotional, too. Damn. She rather liked it. On the way home his hand was under her dress as he drove, teasing herpubic mound so that by the time she reached his apartment you were wet and ashorny as she could remember being. He took her on the rug in his living room,and then later in his big bed. For Alice, things had gotten out of hand ... and she loved it. Dave had continued to maintain possession of either her breast or her sexthe whole drive home. When they had entered the house he had begun kissingher in earnest.