Remembering the recent foot rubbing, he recalled as well Casey’s stiffie. Nice! And what was the hug all about? Casey had never been physically demonstrative around Dan. He had to take care of his importunate c**k before he could get to sleep. * * * * In lab the next afternoon and at The Cougar later, everything with Nicole seemed perfectly normal. Dan wondered if she had seen or talked on the phone with Gage Bonds. If so, Gage had apparently said nothing to her about their run-in the day before. There had been a half a dozen or so witnesses to the event, all of them college students, so far as he could tell, so it was likely that word would get back to Nicki eventually. He wondered if he should tell her before she heard it from someone else. He couldn’t think how to do that without see

