Linda listened to me relate the minutes of this morning's meeting with increasing incredulity and amusement. She finally bursting into laughter as I d...scribed Janet's facial gymnastics as the Manatee Bay Board of Education Chairman had tried to keep from melting down in front of the merciless gaze of both the town's mayor and its most successful entrepreneur."OK," she demanded as I wrapped up the tale, "let's see your notes."I handed over the tiny pocket notebook I'd written the bullet points. Using more restraint than I thought possible, I replied “I can’t.” He looked at me with a look of confusion. He had to know I wanted him, considering I had been heavily flirting when we were alone for the past year or so. I answered his look “You’re drunk. I don’t want you to wake up in the morning and regret this, resent me, and so if you still want to tomorrow, I will.” He said “please Cassie I won’t regret it.” with this look of disappointment in his eyes. I wanted to so bad but I held my. I was all by myself. Coould I really go in alone. What the hell, nobody knows me in this town anyway. So I walked across the parking lot and went in. As I entered I was suprised to see how nice and well lit the store was. I walked around for a while and had began to attract a lot of attention. I flirted a bit with a few guys and just walked around. I was dressed a little slutty in my black boots, short black skirt and a white button down withh no bra. Guess they all kenw what was going to. Matt said, “Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.”“Clausewitz?”“Sun Tzu.”Fucking high school dropout.He smiled, “Okay, we’ll get transport out of the way first.”He opened his gun safe, handed me my DC-residing .40 Heckler & Koch. In a shoulder holster that just happened to fit me. He also took out his own Sig Sauer. Matt and Winter, out on the town.Neither of us expected Dixie Walker to make another play for me here. But then people didn’t expect to be struck by lightning. Better.