He was her current lover's mate who was just in town for the night. Could she just come out to make things even?Not much of a pub goer, but happy to h...lp her friend, Helen agreed to be picked up at 7:30pm. When the phone rang at six she hadn't even started getting ready. There would be a change of plan. Mark, the mate, was collecting her in fifteen minutes as they now had a booking for dinner at 6:30! Wow! Thanks for the notice! Five minutes in the shower and five more for makeup. Time was. Their driver had been drugged up on speed and he was trying to make up time on his delivery run. This cost the company a lot of money, I mean a lot of money. They settled out of court to keep their drugged up driver out of the media. It didn't work; they paid me all that money and I still went public and raised as much hell as I could. Didn't do any good but it made me feel a little better.When I was released from the hospital, I had to spend three months in rehab, and then several more months. " Steve said, "And the staff are really good.We," he nudged his business partner and sound man, "did the Clapton gigsthere the other year." Aye and the hall has a great sound," his partner nodded.Steve is the kind of stage/tour manager everyone wants as he is a crossbetween a logistics professor and a cast iron bastard who'll take no shitfrom either promoters or hall managers. He is also a perfectionist andone of the unsung heroes of the Babes success."The Royal Albert, Jess!" Beth laughed,. I would take care of my own needs as best I could. I bought myself a couple of plastic boyfriends so that I could have a little excitement once in a while. But they were a poor substitute for the real thing.Finally, it became more than I could take, and when Stacy was seven years old, we divorced. It had been ten years of marriage and seven years of hell. The divorce didn't set well with any of us, but it hit poor Stacy hardest of all. She couldn't understand why Mommy and Daddy now lived in.