" What did you like most about tonight?" Charlie asked as they drove back to Karen's place."Pleasing you," she said simply, leaning over and kissing h...is cheek."I don't remember you saying you've done any of those things before, have you?" You mean the kinky stuff, no, I've never done anything like that." How do you feel about what I got you to do?" I loved it, every little bit of it. Going out dressed up like this really turned me on. It was humiliating to have to walk through the restaurant. We'll have her mass produce her lipstick all right, but it'll be the doc's recipe, not her own. That way, millions of women across America will suddenly develop a new secret vice that they just can't seem to live without. Of course, she'll think it's all due to her original formula being a failure and then lying about it to the very women she was trying to protect. Her belief that she has single-handedly turned so many of the women who trusted her into desperate, cum-addled sluts like herself. He was besotted with this vibrant young woman ... this single woman ... this woman that he wanted to be with for the foreseeable future. And she was exhibiting the same foolish tendencies.As a fantasy, it was delightful. The idea of being around a fresh, intelligent, young and sexy woman ... a woman who welcomed him between her legs ... that was a terrific fantasy for a man on his way to being over the hill. The lessons he had learned over his lifetime made this immeasurably better than it. "Three." That's nice. Kids are a great thing. They bring life into perspective. All those great plans you had for yourself when you were young, you'd gladly give them all up in exchange for having happy, healthy kids." That's the truth," he said."I bet you'd give anything to keep something from happening to Teddy, Lois and Jeffrey. Louise too for that matter."I said it as casually as I would mention it was getting dark outside.His head jerked in my direction. His pale, white face turned.