Then her phone chimed. Karen picked it up expecting to see a message from David, but it was’nt. It was from Jeff. Karen flushed with excitement, hap...py that he hadn’t forgot Valentine’s Day. Jeff had been away in the Atlanta office and not due to return for another week. Karen was having an affair with him currently that was more about mutual excitement than a relationship. She had thought about telling David as he was always fantasizing about being a cuckold but as yet had not. The message. Shehad made an appointment at her favorite hair salon for Friday at noon. Shesaid she explained to her friend the owner exactly what she wanted done. Shetold me they would know just the right hair cut for me and they could alsotake care of my nails and face. When we got to the salon, she said I shouldlay back and relax and let them do their thing. The first task was to cut myhair which they styled--it looked great and very feminine. Mer just laughedand said I needed to accept the new me. They. ‘Rachel, what the hell are you doing? Maybe we should get you back to your room already.’ I jerked out of his grasp, almost falling over in the process. ‘What the hell are YOU doing?? Don’t be a cockblock, kay?’ He crossed his arms in irritation. ‘You need to calm down. You haven’t eaten, you’re half wasted already, and you found the nearest bar lech to glom onto. Don’t you see why I’m concerned?’ ‘What do you mean?! It’s Vegas! I can have fun if I want! And Aiden is a bank manager. He’s nice!. He was asking for bribes to keep from shutting them down. That kind of thing was the cost of doing business, but he had been raising his bribe amount every week and it had gotten so high that it was cheaper to close up shop than it was to keep paying bribes.Kat had planted the gun she had taken from Piggy's corpse in the man's city-owned ground car and then phoned in an anonymous tip to the Peace Keepers. They had come down on him like a ton of plascrete and he was 'shot trying to escape'. The.