He looked her over and smirked, placing his handcuffs back around his waist as he stood there with his arms crossed. “Well honestly, you’ve only g...t two choices. We can either take a trip down to the station for a little overnight stay, or you can do me a little favor”, he said, insinuating something far more sinister. “What kind of favor?,” asked Marci, a bit uneasy from his condescending presence. She just wanted to get home and lay down in bed, she had a slight headache from her argument. She couldn't wait!Steve was keeping busy studying the briefing materials before leaving on his trip to Tucson in less than two weeks. He had talked with his Father several times since Raul Rodriguez had visited him at the White House two weeks earlier. He had told his Father about his engagement to the President, but made him swear that he wouldn't tell anyone.Although they had voted by absentee ballot in the primary, Steve, Kathy, and her children planned to go to Philadelphia on the 17th to. I would rush to help her carry her groceries,sometimes escort her to the lift, even open the cab door for her.However, I never mustered the courage to ask her out. Something alwaysstopped me. She too never took another step after that long passionatekiss. But something had changed between us. I strangely felt a littlesubservient to her. She just had to raise her eyebrows and I would rushto help her, like a little lap dog.Then one day she called me over to her apartment on a Saturday. "I. As I drove east I thought a lot about Tank, Willi, Mike and Jose. Four men I spent a year with, not by choice but they were good companions and all five of us came back alive. Now that Tank was gone I was the last one still alive. Forty years since we came back and four funerals. I’d been at every one. Charlotte, my wife, had gone to the first funeral. She hated it and never went to any of the others. Near home I always listened to the Oldies station on the radio. As I drove east I had the.