”“Okay,” he said as he wiped tears from his eyes. I felt bad leaving him alone, especially since mom was gone and he didn’t have a girlfriend.... I don’t know why he didn’t have a girlfriend, but he didn’t. Dad was getting ready to go on another moose hunt, so that would surely take his mind off me for a while any-way. The drive to Grayson was really beautiful. The leaves on the trees were a golden amber color and caught my eye. I had been driving for an hour, when I finally had to stop and. You're jealous because you cannot fit in this outfit. You would love to show off in front of your friends in this!" I stop and listen to my words echo in the house. My thoughts go to Shelly. I hate to think that she is dressing in something like this right now and going to try and pull the look off. I run through the house grab my purse and knock the bag filled with pantyhose onto the floor. I will pick that up when I get home. I think to myself. I lock the door. The garage door opens. I jump. ”“How’s that?”“Well, if too much choice makes people miserable, it follows that being given no choice at all will lead them to ecstasy.” Cereza’s eyebrows darted upward twice in rapid succession. She was being cheeky, yet there was a certain logic to it.James grinned sheepishly and nodded. “I never thought about it like that. Definitely true for a certain segment of the population.”“Mmmhmmm. Naughty bottoms and submissive sluts like you.”He resumed his browsing, maneuvering through long lists. However, the news of the fire had interrupted Mitch, sending him bolting from the office, forgetting all about the plans that were lying in plain sight.No information about the operations was stored in digital format. Forensics had become very good at recovering data, and secret programs embedded in computers could observe and report back to law enforcement or competitors. But paper could be destroyed permanently by fire. No records more than a week old were allowed to exist. Even video.