It contained a DVD and a letter what read:"Dear Ladies, I really hope you enjoyed your trip to Gambia. Enclosed please find a DVD with highlights of y...ur holiday pleasures. I'm fine and have founded a social welfare fund for young Gambians and I dare to count on your cooperation with this important matter. I suggest each of you to transfer 150 EURO/month to the account number written on the DVD. I look forward to your kind cooperation in this matter and I promise to be careful with my original. Since Mohammed wouldn’t come to the mountain, the mountain came to Mohammed, as it were.Conny and Melissa, still carrying their microphones and their drinks, made their way through the crowd until they stood at the table we had appropriated.Melissa gave me a quick hug but Conny kissed me softly on the lips. I could taste the fruity flavor of her drink – and I doubted it was the first she’d had that evening.“So, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” Conny began. “Oh, wait, that’s a. .......’‘We’ll have plenty of time for shopping tomorrow before we have to be at the airport, honey. I have other plans for tonight. Come on let’s go get a beer’ Steve took Abi’s hand and gave her an encouraging tug. Both laughed as they made their way through the street market towards the tacky neon signs of the bars and clubs that lined the notorious street that made up Patpong.Steve had been right in his description of the place to Abi. Patpong was Bangkok’s most infamous red-right ‘tourist’. ”She had the grace to color at the heavy sarcasm. She also began to stutter her response, until her mother intervened. “You can stop there. I see that time is running out. We can continue this tonight, and your father will drive you to school.” Turning to me, she poked me in the shoulder. “You run upstairs, and get dressed. You and I will talk, once you get home!”I ran.Once I returned home from a uncommonly frosty ride to school, with a normally chatty teen, I found The Darling Wife in full.