I had to remind myself not to flirt with the guy, but he was being pretty nice."Don't make any promises, Jilly." The boy chuckled. "We don't know each...other that good yet." Yet?" I rolled my eyes as I sat down, leaning against the padded arm of the couch and looking at him as I sipped the rest of my soda."Well..." Ruhk shrugged. "You're hot, you know that?" So?" I stuck my tongue out at him. "Where's your girlfriend anyway?" Tiff?" He lifted his can of beer lazily. "She's around, probably out. The male standing by Brandi was hit in the head. The silver clad female started to attack but was taken out by a chop across the throat from Jen. I don't think she was trying to hurt the woman just stop her from attacking me. Yoshi was already trying to free Brandi as I checked the six dead guys. Yoshi called for keys to unlock the cuffs that were on Brandi.We found the keys in the pocket of one of the goons and had Brandi freed in short order. We joined the rest of our team donning life vests. I had just comeout of a long relationship and wasn't ready for anything morecomplicated yet. Since it was closer than mine, we went to Gretchen'spermanent hotel room. We both had jobs that could be quite demandingso the hour's workout that followed provided some wonderful stressrelief. When we were done, Gretchen rolled off me and sighedwistfully."A shame Kirsty isn't a smoker," she said of her mount. "A cigaretteafter sex is the best cigarette of all."Beyond sex, mounts were able to specify. Victor Charles, Harry Slaughter, and I were in one of Charles & Associates’ small conference rooms. We were ready to discuss what needed to be done to set up my collaboration, so Vic and Harry could present a successful defense when the collaboration was sued.Vic said, “I’ve briefed Harry on what we discussed last Friday, Carl. He and I have several suggestions on how you should structure these five businesses. During our last meeting, I said we would also discuss defense strategy, but Harry.