And, until a few days ago, she seemed to have lost all interest in Jake as a person, as a lover, as a friend.Ever since Jake's trip to New Zealand to ...et the ball rolling on his plot of isolated land, this spiral had seemed to increase in speed and volume. Though his transgression with Mindy Snow on the way home had not been discovered — by the press, by Helen, or by anyone else as far as he knew — the change in Helen when he'd arrived back home had been too stark to ignore, too severe to. Si?n raised his eyebrows."You said that! Oh my goodness no wonder you want to avoid them. Did yousort of mean it? I mean are you serious about being, you know what?" heasked uncertainly."No idea, it was a heat of the moment thing, I've not considered what Imight do with whom, we shall have to see, maybe I'll become a nun...," Ireplied, smiling. "Come on let's get going, last one to Goytre wharf buysbreakfast!"We set off on the 25 mile ride to the canal wharf. We took it in turns totake the. Lizzie watched as he slowly gave up, and covertly zipped himself up without reaching that climax he had been chasing for nearly half an hour.Lizzie smiled to herself, flush with power and quite enjoying the frustration she had just witnessed in her annoying coworker.After barely two minutes had passed, Benny stood up from his desk. He still looked irritated, and Lizzie allowed herself to make eye contact with him as he walked past her desk on the way out. If she had to bet, she'd guess he was. ”“Well, yeah but...” Cricket started to say, then stopped herself and fought the urge to blush at the compliment she’d been about to pay him. “Maybe we should just dance?”Dietrich turned out to be a remarkably good dancer. Cricket had more than ten years of ballet, but less than a year of ballroom. Dietrich had enough ballroom to find her level of competence quickly and keep his moves at a level she could follow as long as she paid attention.They danced for a couple of songs before Dietrich.