"What's going on dear?"I turned, quicker than she had expected and started a kiss directly on her lips, pulling from me for only a moment before we we...re turning it into a mutually erotic kiss."Wow, Chris—you certainly have some wonderful kissing skills, so you must have woken up and now you're horny. And guess who is in the house today?"She moved her mouth to mine, starting an equally erotic kiss, sticking her hand down my sweat pants and finding me rather erect."What exactly are you in the. Those subpoenas are still active and we still want those records,” Senator Howell said.“After the court ordered Black Bear dissolved, because of the abundance of classified materials they also ordered all records sealed forever. You will have to take up that subpoena with the courts,” I said.“JBG has to have original copies of the contracts and accounting to continue the business they acquired from Black Bear. We demand all contracts and records, plain and simple,” Senator Howell said.“Again. Not once had Duncan explained his motives for looking into Gerald's activities, now Helen was explaining them to him and to herself.As they walked she grew less judgmental, more understanding, less outraged that he had done so.Back at the condo they took soft drinks out onto the patio to sit under the spring sky. Sitting on comfortable Adirondack chairs the two soaked up the brightness of the early spring day while continuing their conversation. It was there Helen tried apologizing to Duncan. Just the thought that they would be there had me in tears. Before we even finished breakfast, they would be smirking and giggling while I would be crying and mom just acted as though nothing at all special was going on. When we got back from school, everything in the living room would already be set up. Mom had a folding card table opened in the middle of the room, with a padded bench on one side. Next to the bench would be a utility bag holding a hairbrush, a paddle, a ruler, and that old.