I’d read this story so many times I knew it all by heart. It didn’t turn me on any more. I only had limited magazines and two movies, all of which I’d devoured my first week here, and now I was bored.
Life was becoming kind of tedious. I was house sitting for a teacher friend I knew. Louise was in Europe with her husband and kids. He’d been transferred to Germany and, as the company had offices all over the world, it was up to him to show them all what they had discovered, so after Germany he’d be lecturing throughout Europe.
He was a scientist working on a breakthrough in cancer research and had quite a dynamic personality. I was in awe of him, their lifestyle, and their complete family unit. The thought of seeing all of Europe while he worked made me envious and I was determined that o
