Sometimes that person was another woman, but mostly she liked the men.Dave had teased her about one part of her starting college; “All the college m...n are going to take one look at you and hit on you every minute you’re on campus. Hell, the faculty will want to bed you, too.”Christie laughed, “Don’t you think I get hit on at the club? I know about three thousand ways to nicely say ‘No’ and ten thousand ways to tell someone to ‘fuck off’ depending on how obnoxious their approach to me was. I. Within ten minutes of getting the plane I had established three things about Marie-Luz, as I later found out she was called. Firstly she spoke no English (and my Spanish is very poor). Secondly, she had the most gorgeous smile which she seemed willing to bestow on me. Thirdly, full on her face was beautiful from the side- significant if you are sitting next to someone on an aircraft- it was still attractive but compromised a little but deep wrinkles leading to her eyes. For the first two hours. At least it was good to get a break from the pressures of finding the bad guys and closing cases that demanded full attention.The newspaper was filled with rank speculation about a high-up connected guy that was under lock and key in the tombs. He was a Brooklyn wise-guy and a “made” man, so it hard for me to wrap my head around his arrest in the first place because the shit was about stuff that had happened at least three prosecutors ago and was centered around extortion and arson cases that. While her eyes were closed, I reached into my pocket, pulling out the ring box. She was still starry-eyed when I said, “Jasmine, will you make me the happiest man alive and be my wife?” I just barely managed to keep the ring from falling overboard as she leaped into my arms.“Yes, James, of course I’ll marry you.”“Heh, Mon,” the Captain said, “the way you were hanging all over each other we thought you were already on your honeymoon!”He reached into a cooler, pulled out a bottle of champagne and.