Looking at my watch it was almost 8 pm which is when I usually decide if I’m going to hunt for some action to help me find sleep after a good work o...t, or just head back to my hotel room and watch television until I drifted off. Ray and Joe were already dancing with two wild young things as the music played loudly, designed to, and quite effectively cause everyone to lose their inhibitions and spend their money as fast as they could. I wasn’t interested in getting drunk with the long day of. ‘We… uh… met last night.’ ‘Oh yeah?’ Bernie said. He laughed, as did the girls, and they continued laughing for a few long seconds, sharing some private joke. Taggart and Karen did not laugh. Taggart looked intently at Ben. ‘Was it a date?’ Ben stared back, unblinking. ‘Yeah, I guess.’ Taggart asked, ‘What did you do on your date?’ Karen was the one who answered the question. ‘We fucked,’ she said. This time no one laughed, but Bernie and the girls smiled pleasantly. Taggart slipped from his. How r things going? xx’, you read. You were surprised to get a text from me at this hour, what was I doing up? ‘Hello U :)’, you replied, ‘what you doing up at this hour?’. ‘Couldn’t sleep’, came my reply, ‘too frisky thinking about you! ;-)’. Although you were alone, you blushed slighted at the directness of my text. You enjoyed the teasing and flirting which went on between us and I could always be relied upon to find a way to surprise you. ‘You’re a very naughty Doctor ;)’, you texted,. I was drawn right into them. Her thumb traced a line down my neck (I guessed following a scratch mark from our battle last night).The smile left her eyes for a moment “I am so sorry we fought last night,” her words soft and considered, “I promise it will never happen again.”“Please don’t feel bad I am as much to blame” I started my apology but she pressed her thumb over my lips to stop me.“All we will do now is make love, all the time we are together, it is love, and even apart think of me with.