So I started with his attached message.Dear Brian,I CHOSE to refer to you as Brian and to assume you are Brian until YOU prove otherwise.That's what I...ve told Millie, Colleen, and Rebecca. I CHOOSE to Believe In You. If you are playing us, I will be so very unhappy, and you will be sorry to learn the full meaning of that. BUT, because of what my daughter tells me, I can choose to buy in for the present time.Colleen told me much of what you shared with them, and I was struck by several things.. We don’t need more of the same old crap. Although that’s all, we’ll likely get,” I licked my lips and made a face.“Needs salt,” I stuck out my tongue.“They better watch out for the carver’s knife,” I pantomimed the guy from Psycho and stabbed the air with an imaginary knife as I stifled a groan and pulled out my notepad and prepared to take notes.Not so much as a record of events but as reminders of anything added to my to-do list. I preferred a pencil and paper over my laptop. The battery on. .." He stopped the timer on the bike, jumped off, dried off the little pearls of sweat on his forehead and gave me a very plain and boring "Hi" back. Jesus Christ, I could get a warmer greeting from the intern sitting at the desk in the post office. He walked straight passed me and I almost had to catch up to him to be able to hear him say: "So are we doing this? Lower abdomen and quadriceps today. You take the device over there and I'll take this one." Are you k**ding me? Now he even wants to. I can’t wait for some idiot back in Nottingham to say it’s OK to move.’ Starting to walk towards the house from his position in the woods, he heard his friend say, ‘Don’t throw away your career for a tart.’ but he was a man of honour and his conscience kept him moving forward. * The men one by one started to walk towards the front door, their hands up, leaving behind them the four hostages and the wounded Alexei laying on the ground, staring at the two people who he blamed most for ruining his.