“If it doesn’t have twenty-seven car chases then it’s not a good film” he stated matter- of-factly.“Do you think `The Pirateers’ is going ...o have many?” asked Lauren rhetorically, smiling as they sat down towards the back of the cinema.They engaged in small talk for a while during the adverts, leaning closer to each other. Once the film had started, Lauren thought she had lost her man for the duration, but he was attentive, checking she was still alive every ten minutes. Lauren didn’t find it. I smiled as I read the column of numbers. The report was a trial balance for the Fuller Group’s first annual statement of net worth. Even though the numbers were for only part of a year, they were pretty impressive.I whipped out the Mont Blanc fountain pen my parents gave me when I graduated from college, and started writing bonus checks for my employees. Once bonuses were out of the way, I wrote checks to Mitzi and Frank for their share of our profits. None of the checks were huge, after all,. I didn’t pay much attention to him. An hour later we were out. Julian took me in his arms and kissed me. We started walking. ‘Jane, let’s run away together!’ he whispered. ‘Darling, if only you meant it, but we both know better, don’t we’, I answered calmly. He smiled at me then. I hated that smile that cynically gave me confirmation of what I would have preferred to be a wrong assumption. ‘Let me enjoy you then, while you are here’ he offered. We returned to my hotel room. Patiently, he. She fitted my headdress like she wascrowning a queen and stood back but before I could get a good look atmyself in the mirror, she said, "Shoes!" and dragged me over to thedressing table to put my shoes on.They were Black Patent Boots with 6" heels that came halfway up my calf,with a wide strap around the top that closed with two small padlocks.When Jean slipped them on my feet I left a shiver go up my electrifiedlegs. The caress of my stockings and the garters pressing against myflesh was.