My coach like most of the landed gentry’s was emblazoned with my family’s crest so I had already bought and hidden a Hansom cab similar to all the...other Hansoms that plied their trade all across London. Even those clod hoppers would be able to find out it was me if someone described my own coach. Heading to the stable where I kept my Hansom cab in, I dressed in the small backroom in my taxi drivers gear. With the black horse fastened in between the shafts and the small paraffin lamp alight. ’ ‘Kind of?’ ‘Well, he invited me to come back after hours and who knows what after that.’ ‘I hope it works out better for you than it did for me.’ ‘How do you mean?’ ‘Last year at the Christmas party he and I ended up naked in the hot tub. We had both dipped in the punch bowl maybe once too often. When I get tipsy I get horny so I jumped his bones. He was all for it and hosed me down real good. The next week at work he was real standoffish. When I finally got to talk to him, he told me it. ’ ‘I think it is a little too messy outside to do that. You are fine. I can cook dinner,’ to underscore my point the quiet snow had become a pinging frozen rain that struck her air conditioner accompanied by a howling wind ‘And you are not a mess.’ ‘I am, a smelly mess, and probably fucked up my career.’ ‘No you didn’t, and to tell the truth I like it when a woman is natural. No makeup, heavy scents, just her,’ I said coming closer to her. I kissed her and she pressed against me. My arms went. So why Zeke and not Kayla?”“First of all, except for Charlie and Mario, he’s been here longer than anyone except the founders of the company. Second, I’m confident that he’ll do a good job. Third, Kayla loves her sales job and I think she’d hate having to do more administrative work.”“And you think Zeke will be OK with that?”“Yes. He already works with Chris to administer all of the support contracts. And he coordinates the work for the other on-site support staff. And I suspect he and Tasha.