We'll go shopping and you can take me to dinner," she said, bending down for a goodbye kiss."Yes, dear," Ed said, shrugging.I was really enjoying this... Jen overruling her husband and ordering me to drive her to work."Just like old times," I said as soon as we were in the car."What do you mean?" Don't you remember when we were together? I used to drive you to work back then. Now I'm doing it again." We're not together anymore," she said, dismissively."Aren't you concerned that people we know. Do you understand what I’m telling you? I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to lose you…but…" I kissed her tenderly before answering her. "Debby, what you’re talking about is having an open relationship. I can understand your need for an open relationship. I have no problem with that. But it has to work both ways, I have to feel free to have sex with anyone that I want to too. Open relationships have to be a two-way street. Is that Ok with you, Debby?" "Oh, sweet Jesus…yessss! Maybe I could. She paid two guys to stand at places where they thought was the right place to position with boards she wrote on in felt pen — ‘Cousin Victor Shadbolt from NZ’. She held up fifty bucks and said it would be a bonus to the guy who brought passenger Victor Shadbolt to her in the coffee shop she identified. ‘It could be a couple of hours Miss.’ ‘That’s fine, I like coffee and will read the newspaper.’ Just over an hour later someone coughed just behind her — an attention-seeking cough. It was one. .." Lieutenant Cole seemed momentarily at a loss for words, waving his hands as if he could shape a sentence with them, "I'm glad he's on our side, sir."The Major frowned and nodded, "He seems to be all anyone is talking about all of a sudden. You'd think we didn't have sixty thousand Iraqis waiting right across the border for us." He pushed the flap aside, "All right, Lieutenant."Inside, the space set aside for the Major was a chiaroscuro, light and shadow breaking up the room into irregular.