I really thought I had a solid, secure situation. But who knows?" She shifted on the hard stone of the hearth. "When you and I were in Hamburg, you kn...w, it was different. I had to cover my targets from a distance. But you never got into that." No. Not my thing." Oh, I don't mean to sound critical. We were in different businesses. You had solid intelligence on the families and you shared with me. That was an enormous help. You weren't one of us — at least that's what I always thought. Now, I'm. "No wonder they call you Cherry. I've been taking you out for 2 months and this is the respect I get? You can walk home."Tim reached out and slammed the door before driving off, leaving Cherise standing alone in the clearing in the middle of the night."Asshole!"It was a dark, moonless night, and Cherise had to take great care not to trip while walking down the uneven gravel road, strewn with broken beer bottles, discarded beer cans, and other assorted garbage. She knew she had a long walk ahead. It ended with her wearing a nice low cut top and a light plaited skirt that stopped halfway down her thighs. Underneath she wore a small black thong, dark stay ups and a black sheer bra. It was awesome at the party seeing all the men of her office stealing looks at her when they could and I got more excited as the evening progressed. I asked Jess to point out the guys who had been harassing her over the last couple of weeks and she in turn pointed out a group of 4 guys standing in a group. ”“What are you going to do?” PLATO said nervously.“Can’t you tell using your marvelous neural network?” she replied mischievously as she picked up the large, old-fashioned telephone from its cradle on the face of the console.“Richard is the staff scientist on call tonight,” she said quietly while she waited for the automated call to go through. Picking up the handset caused the system to automatically dial the on-call number. Whoever was on call carried a small flip-phone style cell.