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good naturedly as he puts his watch back on, then looked at it. “They start arriving at about noon, so in about an hour.”
     
    “Okay, I’ll finish this up and see if anything in here fits. May I use your shower when I’m done?”
     
    “Sure.”
     
    “Okay. Thanks.” As Jack turned and walked away, Tina let him take three steps before she called to him. “Jack! Don’t forget this,” she said as she tossed him his wallet.
     
    He caught it, his surprise clear on his face as he felt his now empty pocket. “Am I going to have to handcuff you?” he grinned, stuffing the wallet into his pocket as he walked away.
     
    Tina looked at the floor and smiled as she started sweeping again. Being handcuffed by Jack … to a bed … might not be so bad, she thought.
     
    ***
     
    When Tina stepped out of Jack’s apartment, dressed in another set of clothes that almost fit, if didn’t coordinate, she saw a half dozen additional bikes sitting just inside the big roll up door, and perhaps a dozen men and four or five women milling about in the lounge. Loud music mixed with the sounds of happy people.
     
    Tina swallowed hard and made her way toward the group. She really didn’t want to mingle, but she didn’t want to hide in Jack’s apartment either, afraid of how that might look. She had always been a bit of a loner, and there was no possible way to put a positive spin on why she was here.
     
    As she approached, all eyes turned to her and the babble of voices fell silent. Jack turned the music down a little before he approached her. “Sons, this is Tina.” She got a reserved welcome. “She is here working off a little debt to me.”
     
    “I bet she is,” needled a guy lounging on the couch which caused the rest of the group, including Jack, to laugh.
     
    “She’s down on her luck and she broke in…”
     
    As Jack talked, Tina felt herself flush furiously. Here it came…
     
    “... to find something eat and a place to sleep.”
     
    Tina was surprised that Jack ended the tale there, but the Sons still stared at her coldly. “She broke in and you let her stay? How did she get in?”
     
    “She came in through one of those windows,” Jack said with a nod of his head at the three window along the wall of the lounge.
     
    Everyone turned and looked, then looked back to Tina. “She came through one of those? Are you sure?” another man asked.
     
    “That’s why she is still here,” Jack explained. “She has agreed to stay and work off the replacement cost of the window.”
     
    “Doing what?” a woman asked with a smirk.
     
    Jack grinned. “Not that, Michelle. She helped me put the window in, and I’m sure you noticed how clean the place is. Tomorrow I will find something else for her to do.”
     
    “Can you trust her?”
     
    “I think so. She has stood by her word so far. And she has quite a party trick too, if anyone is interested in seeing it.”
     
    The rest of the Sons looked at each other. “Sure, why not. What is it?”
     
    “Ah, ah, ah. If I told you it would give it away. We’ll show you a little later.” Jack grinned down at her. “You up for this?”
     
    “Jack … I don’t know. I don’t want to make anyone, you know, mad,” Tina muttered under her breath.
     
    “They will be okay with it. And if not, they can be mad at me because I want you to do it.”
     
    Tina took a deep breath. “Okay. If you want me to.”
     
    “I do,” Jack said before he leaned down to whisper in her ear. “We normally break up about eight, after dinner. Mingle, then right after dinner, we will reveal what you took. I want you to take everything you can. The more, the better.”
     
    “Why, Jack?”
     
    “Trust me,” he said before he kissed on her head.
     
    ***
     
    Tina began to mingle. Everyone was awkward around her at first, but she turned on the charm and slowly everyone began to relax around her. She didn’t go fishing until the Sons started breaking out the grills. While