Our firm, you know, the one that pays our salaries.’ I did now, finally, detect through the note of irony in her tone that she was not quite as dum... a blonde as I had supposed. I was silent, but after an exchange of pregnant looks managed, ‘So what does this have to do with me. I admit I was duped, and God knows what they did with all the material, but I do not see what this has to do with the firm.’ ‘Ah well, that’s where the party who uncovered the video comes into it, you see. Well, you’ll. Well, things had gone pretty well and, I'm going to be honest, the whole damn thing kind of turned into one big party. I'd got on very well with a couple of French guys and a Spaniard; we'd kind-a tied one on a bit.I'm not sure how the subject had come up, but during the afternoon I'd mentioned that I'd had to cancel my engagement party to make it to the conference. Now I'm pretty sure that if Jose had been sober he'd wouldn't have suggested the idea, and if I'd been sober I'd have turned him. Even after he questioned Reznikov, he would need to find a way to keep both men on ice while he found the girls. His disappearance would be suspicious of course, but even if he tipped off the people trafficking the girls, they wouldn’t have confirmation that Taylor was tracking the girls down. The last thing he wanted was for them to get nervous and start changing plans.Looking around, he found a pair of handcuffs and some rope in the nightstand. Taylor didn’t want to even think about why the. Emotional toast, brain fried. What could possibly happen next! I needed some stress relief and bad. With my stud muffin gone till the next blow up with his wife the only thing that was working to blow off some steam was a hard work out at the gym, so off I went gym bag in hand to pump some iron. I usually didn’t work out late in the evening as it keyed me up too much to get to sleep at a decent hour, however this day I was running late for everything so I did not get to the gym till an half.