I promise I'll see him before he leaves," JJ explained."Don't stop there, Mom," Blake complained. "What happened to him? Did you have to peel him off ...he desert? Will he live? Were you escorting his stretcher back to Phoenix?" What are you talking about?" Kim asked, entering the family room."The Army dropped a missile on a guy in the desert," Blake explained. "Mom rode back to Phoenix with him, and said he seemed like an interesting guy, according to her." Really?" Kim asked, her eyes widening. .. I could have stayed holding you there all night, but after what seemed like hours but was only in reality a couple of minutes, I let you go and picking up your bags led you inside.. I put your bags in the guest room not wanting to presume anything. You followed me in and removed your sunglasses, My breath was caught short as you had the bluest, most beautiful eyes I had ever seen. I could see in them that you were as nervous as I was. I hugged you again picking up the faint scent of Lauren. I am seldom without words, but this qualified as one of those times.~ ~ ~I should have stayed at the office.Now I am a city girl and perfectly at ease living in a cosmopolitan environment, which means I have a collection of friends and acquaintances that most assuredly would be considered eclectic and multicultural. They encompass most ethnicities, genders, professions, eccentricities, religious beliefs, colors, sizes, stripes, and persuasions.Someone walking down Fifth Avenue wearing a gorilla. I'd sink them and they wouldn't even know it was me that did it.The hard part was going to be sitting down with Pat and not have Andy and Jean know about it. The only way I could do that was catch Pat alone. Fortunately I had a way I could do that. Pat was a mid-level manager in a company we did business with and I called on them occasionally. When I did I usually swung by Pat's office and offered to take her to lunch. I hated to do it to her, but she needed to know what kind of an asshole she.