She encouraged me too with an aside between songs. I felt as though there were two of me: one carefully and slowly observing the other, making correct...ons ahead of time and planning things the audience and Crystal would like, for instance, in one of our love songs I put my arms around her – it made the song more romantic and looked great on the large screens above us.I faded to the side for a couple of numbers Crystal did alone, and then we did some more duets. Between some of the songs we did. I pulled out my key and let myself in closing the door behind me. He hammered on the door several times before shouting through the letterbox."You'll have to come out sometime. I'm not going anywhere. I just want to talk to you."I was trembling as I started to make myself some coffee. It had been five years or more since I'd felt this way. I sat down at my kitchen table and tried to regain my self-control. I heard voices outside and then a key in the door. I turned and was relieved to see Wendy. You know I have had sex – a number of times, and there’s no mystery about what goes on. I’ve even watched some porn. Mom knows, although I think she wanted me to wait. I say that because I know all about the birds and the bees, and the tab A in slot B kind of stuff. I’m also aware of the emotions that develop during sex and the flow of hormones in kids my age that might couple sex and love, when that wasn’t the intention of one party.“Anyways, here’s what I’d like to have happen. I’d like you. Now, for the time being, he was Max the Enforcer. From experience, he knew that if one looked the part and spoke the part, no one questioned who you really were. The CIA trained him to run black ops. Because of this, he preferred to be faceless, efficient and deadly. But his current position required people to know and fear him. The pay and power afforded him was worth the burden of playing this character.He paused the music, pulled out his satellite phone and dialed a number he'd committed to.