She beckoned the barman and told him she’d like an alcove table now. She would choose something to eat from the dinner menu and could the waiter ple...se bring the other menu to the table. The barman smiled at her and asked, “The other menu – dine in or takeaway?” Em said, “Takeaway.” A little later Em was eating her dinner. It was just a light Caesar salad and a glass of wine with a strong espresso to follow. She didn’t want to eat much before the night’s main event. She was also consulting. I know I was blushing when she first mentioned that, but when she asked me if I wanted to help her with it, I nearly panicked, wondering how I could ever explain doing something like that to Shirley. I wasn't planning on doing it, but I had a clear mental image of what it might look like. After they were finished laughing at me, about my panicked reaction, Jane gave me the name of the company that made the new driver she'd been talking to me about over Thanksgiving dinner.I went over to my. I knew then that I was in love with you. Crazy as it sounds, I'm in love with you, Georgette."I wasn't prepared for what happened next. With as little as a quick look in her rear view mirror, she pulled across three lanes of traffic on 880 and onto an off-ramp. In an equally swift move, she pulled the car into the first opening and parked it perfectly in one continuous motion. She undid her seatbelt and leaned over to me and unbuckled mine as well."Come over here, lover. Any man who tells me. "Son ... of ... a ... Bitch!!! Maybe we have found a gold mine and the reason why the building was so thoroughly pounded by artillery! If these are the legitimate rulers of the city, the junta may have been trying to kill them off and make it look like an accident. The junta could claim that these people had run to a shelter during the fighting and had been killed when the overhead collapsed on them. None but the friends of the junta needed to see what had really happened or where the people.