The three men gave their reports. Ramirez shared the information that Allaine had gathered as well. Helena took it all in, sharing her own thoughts; o...itting that they’d come to her in what she was choosing to call “a dream,” for the moment.“Your friend is pretty astute, Ramirez. Whoever is behind all of this is throwing us a bone here. We have no choice but to follow his bread crumb trail; he knows we can’t and won’t stop looking for him. With the ‘Jimenez was a crazy stalker’ story, we get. When we had finished getting our clothes on, we began packing up the food and cups into my satchel. Once that had been completed, I rolled up the blanket, and we began the trek back to the road. Violet was attached to my arm the entire trip back to the village. We talked about what we will do, what we hoped our future would be together.“I never want to be apart from you again, Davik,” she said, as tears filled her eyes, “I have waited ten long years for you to come back.”I smiled and hugged her. " I was floundering and I knew it. "I'll see you around. It may not be for a while though, unless Stevie has a hot friend I can double date with..."Oops. Drink had loosened my tongue. I hadn't intended to say all of that out loud. Charlotte looked at me as though seeing me for the first time. "You're bi? AJ never said. I thought you were being a really cool straight mate." He doesn't know. I couldn't tell him while he was single. He..." I know. Wanna get that taxi?"I was surprised, but I wasn't. " Bryce said."No problem, talk to you later." Alex said."Later." Bryce said and they hung up.When Alex talked to his sister about meeting his friend she asked, "Tell me about him first. Is he nice? Is he cute? Does he have his own car? Does he have a job?" Well obviously he has a job if he's getting us this equipment at a huge discount; he works for his family's business. I think he's a nice guy; he has his own car, a Scion TC I think. As far has him being cute ... I'll have to leave that to.