I tell him, “You will want to go over the names of graduates from UVic again. I’m about to dump another big project on your back, and you will nee...d the help.”“What is it this time?”“Have you ever heard of an ekranoplan?”“Never”“You have heard of a WIG, Wing In Ground effect boat.”“After the academic decathlon, that is all Elsa talked about for almost two months.”“An ekranoplan is a WIG that is shaped like a snubbed wing airplane. I want one about 185 ft long with a dry weight of 150 metric tons. I have nothing but hardcore attitude adjusters and that is not him. I want to keep this one and to do that, I cannot damage him.”“Ok, I got ya. What do you need?”“I have a list and some ideas I want to run by you.”I reviewed the surveillance history – it took four days because of all the breaks I needed to relieve my “stress” – and I mapped out a plan to satisfy all of Glenn’s fantasies. He favored female dominant positions with a little bondage in the mix. He flirted with pain but did not. ”She did, and I did too, all without us looking out of the window again.Just as I was starting to think that the young man had a lot of balls, my phone rang and I was told that our taxi had arrived.“Got to go Riley, get up and pull that skirt down to make you decent and let’s go.”She did, and by the time we got outside the voyeur had gone and his role was taken over by the taxi driver who stared at our legs and I smiled at him thinking, “Stupid man, you should have got out and opened the door. And then I despaired with myself. I had not taken a risk since my beloved wife had died. When was I going to let go? When was my evenings not going to be ready meal followed by classic comedy on satellite television and then an hour of reading historical fiction before bed. When was my door going to be locked from the outside in the evening, and not the inside? When was my security light going to trigger because I was walking down the path and not because of some kids loitering on the corner of.
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