Chapter 2

The next day when Maureen came in for her interview Ken was impressed. She had a little longer than shoulder length auburn red hair, was wearing a dark business suit showing her nice figure along with three inch high heels emphasizing some very nice nylon clad legs. Throw in her pretty face with a few freckles and you had a very attractive lady.

Ken’s interview with her was only a formality as he knew from his first glance that he wanted to hire her. She was a classy big city legal secretary in a small town.

They talked about the job and what he expected. He told her that he knew she had a child and he would be flexible with her work hours when she needed to be because of her child. Maureen said her mother was going to do some babysitting so there shouldn’t be a need to take much time off from work. She said he wouldn’t be sorry if he hired her.

He surprised her and brought a smile to her face when he told her the starting salary and said, “You are hired. When can you start?”

“Tomorrow.”

“The office opens at eight thirty.”

“I’ll be here.”

Ken thought that he had made a good hire but he would need to see how she would perform in the job before he was sure. It would come to pass that she did perform well and quickly became an invaluable assistant to Ken.

The following Saturday found him at Gordon’s condo where he met with Beverly. She told him to look into his desk to see if there was anything that pertained to the law business. She also said she was taking Gordon’s laptop computer with her, but Ken should look to see if there is any legal work on there that Ken should have. She told him the passcode to get on the computer was the last four of Gordon’s social security number which Ken knew.

Ken went through Gordon’s desk but didn’t find anything that was of importance. He cleaned out the desk drawers and emptied most of their contents into a trash bag. There were a few pictures of happier times that he asked Bev if he could have and she told him he could. He found a gym bag and put the pictures in the bag.

He signed on to the computer to see what was there. In the bookmarks he noted a folder that said porn. Opening it he found eight sites listed. There was no reason for Beverly to see this which had him delete that bookmark folder.

In the My Documents section there were a number of folders that could be work related as Wills, Trusts, Trials, Research and others. He didn’t have the time to review all that was there. He copied all these folders to a USB stick and deleted those folders. He would review what was there when he had the time.

In the bathroom Ken looked into the medicine cabinet and saw a wealth of prescription medicines. He asked Bev what she wanted him to do with the medicines. She told him to pitch them. Ken knew medicine shouldn’t me thrown in the trash or flush down the toilet and needed to be disposed of properly. He started to put them in the gym bag when he noticed there was an abundance of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra pills. There was also capsules of what he presumed was medicine in a contained that had a label that said “combo.” Ken knew that these medicines were used to help a man have an erection so he could perform in having sex. Based on the amount of pills that where there, Ken thought Gordon could have taken one pill a day for a year and still have pills left over.

Ken chuckled to himself as he knew some of the women Gordon was seeing socially. They all had the reputation of being prim and proper ladies. Apparently with these women still waters ran deep. Among the ladies that Gordon dated were a pastor’s widow, a teacher who was an ex-nun, and the town’s head librarian. He chuckled to himself thinking of what her title of “Head” could mean. Gordon must have thought that he needed these medicines to please these ladies. Ken would look a little differently at these women when he would now see them.

Ken helped Bev pack up some items for AMVETS and some items for the trash man. It didn’t take that long to bag the items that needed to be bagged. Bev had said that she was going to rent this condo out as furnished. As Ken was leaving he looked at the full black plastic bags in the living room and had the thought that this is what a life boils down to, a number of stuffed black plastic bags. To him that was a sad commentary on the measurement of one’s life.

Back at his townhome Ken went through the gym bag and put away the photos. He left the medicines in the bag and had some further thoughts about the women he knew Gordon was dating. He had a hard time in believing these women had strong sex drives, but women were women so maybe they did. Ken had thought Gordon’s relationships with most of these women were platonic, but that apparently that wasn’t the case. Ken started to wonder how these women were in bed and wondered what they looked like in their birthday suits. If he ever saw these women again, he knew he would be looking at them quite differently.

On Sunday evening with no trials set that he need to prepare for and nothing on television that interested him, he plugged the UBS stick he had made of the folders on Gordon’s computer to see what was there. There were a few items on pending files that needed to be at the office.

It became interesting when he opened the folder that said “research.” Besides some legal research Ken was familiar with, there was a roughed out copy of a letter that wasn’t addressed yet to anyone.

The letter talked about problems men and women had when it came to having sexual relations. It stated that men could have a problem in having an erection in order to have intercourse. There recently had been medicines developed which enabled most men to be able to perform in having intercourse.

Women could have the problem of vaginal dryness which meant that intercourse would be painful for them. Yes, there were products that could be applied to alleviate that problem, but the application of those products could take away from the spontaneity of the moment and make the women feel like she was just performing a service.

Gordon thought that the women’s problem could be solved or improved if a medicine was developed for them just like one was developed for men. To that end he said he had taken an equal amount of the three main medicines men use to solve their problems and put them in a blender to create what he called a “combo” medicine.

This letter went on to say that it was just in the initial stage of testing, but preliminary usage indicated it seemed to be solving the vaginal dryness problem. The testers were saying that this medicine was not creating an urge for them to have sex, but when they did it was more pleasurable because of lubrication for them than it had been in the past. This finding was important since Gordon was not trying to create a date rape drug, he only wanted to solve a problem. That was where this draft of a letter ended.

Reading this letter gave Ken a lot to think about. He was not aware Gordon was involved in doing this type experimenting. He could only assume Gordon was going to send his findings to a drug company to manufacture and market these pills for sale. Since these three medicines where now all generic that should not be a problem. Ken thought he would think more of what Gordon was trying to do in the coming days and shut down his computer.

Thinking that he could think about Gordon’s medicine experiment in the coming days did not happen. That was because with his laptop still in his lap, that was all he was thinking about. If this medicine was successful and generated money he would establish a foundation in Gordon’s name and make charitable donations.

A problem was how to have this medicine tested? He was leery of having a woman pop a pill as who knows how they could react in spite of what Gordon had said. He remembered that there was more ways a medicine could be introduced to the body instead of indigestion that should be safer. With that in mind, Ken drove to the local drug store and purchased a bottle of hand lotion.