”“Hmm. I think this is the first time I’ve been approached in advance. It seems like I’m usually just in time to find an emergency,” Gee mus...d. “What can the City Champion do for you?”“Join me for dinner. Not here at the buffet. Let’s go to Louie’s.”“I thought he was only open in the morning.”“Oh, the café is closed, but Argos promised a good meal and a quiet place to talk. Would you like to invite Karen?”“She has to put the paper to bed tonight. You should assume, though, that anything I hear,. ."Celeste:- "Because you know me, you won't hurt me, you wouldn't ever do that to me"Jonah:- "I was trained to kill, you are just another thing in my way, you must die.."Celeste could hear the uncertainty in his voice, she could tell he recognised her and was struggling with whatever was going on inside himCeleste:- "Jonah, look at me, remember me.."Jonah stared straight at her, he was trying to remember her, the face was so familiar, the voiceJonah:- "Celeste.."Celeste:- "Jonah.."Jonah was. Frank also asked Katherine to ring Beth and let her know, as gently as possible that she was a very close third as far as he was concerned and that he was taking two others out this weekend (even if it was a bit of a lie), but was expecting at least one of them to fall through and would she be upset if he rang her next week for a date, because she had impressed him or something like that. Katherine agreed that she would string her along for at least a week and asked him to ring her next Monday. And she’s sending up a package? I don’t think a woman has ever done that for me, but Lauren checks off a lot of firsts.I look at the clock on the table and note that it’s already 8 am and I’m grateful she thought to wake me up before I missed the whole day at the office luxuriating in my boss’s bed.I shower as quickly as I can knowing that I can’t show up at the office much later than 10 am on a Thursday or my team will wonder why I’m not at our daily stand-up meeting. Given Jackie’s presence.