He explained his fantasy about taking me right on the bus since the day he had first seen me and how if he saw me again he couldn't control himself. I... asked him then why now. He said the only place he could control himself is on the bus. So I leaned in and as I did he grabbed me and kissed me with the most passion I have ever been kissed with. I stood back and his eyes told it all he wanted me right then and there but I knew I should not do that. I went to sit at one of the seats. "Was the kiss. I wished then that I'd made the call in my Dad's office. I wasn't sure how far to push him. My Dad had told me to decide for myself, but I already knew what he was hoping for."We got Consolidated pretty cheaply, Mr. Macklinson, and we sold off just enough to get most of our money back already. What we have left is probably worth over a hundred million, and it cost us less than forty so far. We bought Consolidated partly out of my mother's personal funds, plus I kicked in the other one hundred. "She struggled with terms; it is impossible to speak of the Other infinite words. "...There, and then I was Here ...and I've worked since then as...Daphne? Why?" Six months has passed, and your time of servitude is over." I had, infact, conjured this restaurant solely as the place for her repose whileher soul grounded. "Six months has ...what's happened in the world? Is my sister okay and-"So like her to think of another before herself. "-The world is fine; it continues to spin. Sarah is. . I?... Oh God?", Bill stammered, enjoying playing the role of being seduced by the older, though inexperienced woman. "I guess I understand, Annette, how you must have been tempted? Like I am now? I know it's wrong not to tell Aunt Bonny what you've done? But Sue is so young for what you did? And I'm as guilty as you if we do this? Maybe Aunt Bonny will understand if you explain how it happened?" Hoping he wasn't carrying his feigned reluctance too far, he took his hands away from her.