"Ann fell silent, stewing angrily."You better shape yourself up and stop acting like an idiot. I don't wantpeople saying I'm stepping out with some ni...compoop. If you don't stopacting the fool all the time then I might have to get me pleasurin'someplace else" She strode out haughtily, still only half dressed, the restof her clothes under her arm.Ann got up off the hard pallet but didn't bother to put any clothes on. Shepacked away the pallet to avoid a balling out from old Harry. As Burt,. For the first time in a long time I was happy. I also realized that my concerns about being Robert Burns had evaporated. But even with the charming company I couldn't help but think how much Cecilia would have enjoyed the evening.Thoughts of Cecilia dampened the regret I felt that there wasn't the opportunity for Teri to repeat her passionate performance of the night before. After dinner and farewells, the girls were pretty demanding of my attention, and it was late by the time I got them. "Is John there," she asked the girl, "I need to talk to him." Umm, yeah he's around here somewhere," the girl said smoothly, as though she had no idea that where he was, was upstairs in his daughter's room, in his daughter's bed, in his daughter! "Hold on a minute and I'll find him." Ok," said the career woman, and a moment later she heard the phone set down on the countertop. In the background she heard the opening and closing of a door. Probably her husband's study, she thought. "Mr. Morgan?. " Have you issued a distress call?" We still don't have any communications either. Now how about going backto your seat and let us handle this?" You haven't been handling it very well," I grumbled, but I did what heasked - or at least I went back to the main cabin. To be honest, I wasas frightened as anyone else on board, but I hadn't gotten where I hadin the business world by showing any weaknesses. I might be frightened,but no one would know. If we crashed and died, no one would be around.
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