Richards, as she demanded to be called having blown a fuse the one timeI called her by her first name, Crystal, had called me fifteen minutes afterclo...ing time Saturday indicating that she was on her way and expected me toremain to serve her. I told her my staff had left and we were closed to which she retorted, "Thisis Ms Richards and I'll be there in ten minutes." Enough was enough! "I'll be waiting for you Ms. Richards but please park your car in my privatespot so that no-one else can see I. . well, you know, I’ve never done this before.”She giggled a little bit and stepped closer to him. She could tell that he like the feeling of her body pressing against him. Men always did. She kissed him again, this time on the lips, and then stepped back.“It’s his turn to do something,” she thought.“We have to get on the road, Roxie. Sorry.”She looked down and saw that he had begun covering up with his hands crossed over his groin. Roxie wasn’t fooled. She’d seen men enough to know what that. Spinward, the closest building of the polis remained a quarter of the way up the cylinder. Compared to the nomadic adventures of our childhoods, we’d been making very slow progress along the ringriver during my sister’s last trimester. I lived with a lingering dread that Zuri would be forced to deliver our children in river mud.Generated by hot winds from the desert driving up into cooler air from the bow, dark thunderheads roiled over the rainforest biome lying above us. A series of intense. I told her to get the train and the tube to her hotel because a cab would take hours and cost a fortune. I gave her the Saturday to recover from the flight.At the crack of dawn on Sunday morning, I rode my motorbike to the East of London. It is not something I would dream of doing on a weekday but the roads were a lot quieter and safer on Sundays. It also helped that the schools were off. I parked up by Tracey’s hotel and sent her a text message.“How did you know I would be wide awake?” came.