When I got home, Wilson stepped from the kitchen unit onto the deck. I walked the plank onto the barge, when Wilson called down to me. "Hurry Sylvia y...u need to hear this," he said.The 'this' was a weather alert running on line. Some weather girl, who was almost completely dressed, advised that a tropical storm was riding the gulf stream north. It wasn't supposed to make landfall where we sat, but it might be a brush by. Since Wilson and I had never been in the middle of even a 'brush by', I. ”Lauren countered, “Don't you dare. I love how you look. We'll fight them off together. I have to defend my best intern.”Renee smiled still feeling a bit guilty. “You look fantastic yourself, Lauren. That dress and those shoes, oh my.”Lauren grinned, “Okay, we both look hot. Let's go break some hearts, okay?”“Yes, ma'am.”So, they headed out to the car and into Atlanta proper. Atlanta nightlife can be very exciting if you know where to go, and Lauren did. They didn't stay long at any of the. Up until that point, my experience of Italian cuisine had been limited to not-very-good thick doughy pizza and rather indifferent spaghetti Bolognaise. The food at La Bambina (I think that’s what the place was called) was something entirely different. And, of course, the company was superb. Thinking back, it’s hard to believe that, prior to that evening, Zara and I had only really exchanged a handful of words — and about half of those had been with Zara in not-inconsiderable pain, her swelling. "Good. So has this Kyle boy kissed you Dani?"Hell, it was bad enough talking to my mom about kissing Kyle. Now I wassitting in some fancy restaurant with my Dad and he was asking me allthese personal questions. Dad must have seen the surprised look on my faceas he continued to talk."Daddy! This is ridiculous. " Dani, I know this is hard for you to talk about but we really do need todiscuss a few things and I don t have a great deal of time. But you needto believe that I only have your best.