Carly stayed at the office late. When she got home, her husband Paul was out. Carly figured he had stayed late at his own office, or he was at the uni...versity library researching a case. She once again made her way up to bed alone.Carly saw Paul briefly the next morning. They made small talk, but she wasn't about to tell him what had happened with Stephen. She was now actually glad that when she had asked Paul to talk to their son about his marital problems, he declined. She knew she shouldn't. The smile was small and tentative with the first table, but by the time I had finished a crisped snapper grill for the last table her smile was bright enough to light the room by itself. Still the pace was slow enough that I was even able to continue with some cleaning and organizing between tables.When the last diners left, the young waitress came into the kitchen, and dragged me to a table almost throwing me into a chair. There were still a couple men sitting at the bar drinking, but she. The sensors that Mei and Wei used for their impromptu security system could be quietly disabled if one could hack the encryption on the controller's signals, and Jun and Sun were at least as good at that as my girls. What nobody could control was the fact that each sensor, when sent the shutdown signal, would broadcast a confirmation code which had to be answered by each controller. That was automatic, and normally, our controllers would acknowledge without alerting us, on the assumption that. Thankfully I pulled it on. It was far too big for me. The nurse who wore it was tall and very fat or else had been heavily pregnant. The shoes looked larger too. They pinched a bit but fitted much better than Bronwen's.I took a jug and glass from the kitchen area and the aspirins. Wearing the larger dress like a cape flapping round me the return to the kitchen was scratch and sting free. I filled the jug from the pump and returned to Bronwen. She was still shivering uncontrollably. I dissolved.