He also bought one outfit each for me, Pat and Katelin, but they were less than a grand each."#2: [[If you doubt shopping-lust is the stronger: How ma...y women have hidden their true feelings about having sex with a guy so he'd pay for her shopping? Versus how many women have hidden their true feelings for shopping to spend more time having sex with a guy? QED.]]We didn't talk about the Rodeo Drive trip any more now. Julia refused all the questions, merely saying, "We've got to go to our next. I was in a large limo one of these stretch things though it was an odd one as it had an empty bath in it and I was in there with John Latimer, Jackie and the shop assistant when Stacey served us all large cups of a thick chocolate and paint brushes. At first we sort of mixed the chocolate with our brushes then Jackie painted a large strip across the pert tits of the shop assistant making sure she coloured in her areolas. Then she did the same to me, my nipples erected immediately. John made us. He saw a glimpse of her back as she had left. ‘Shit,’ he muttered. M’s voice on the other end of the line, replied, ‘007! This lead is not shit! It was verified by one of our best local contacts.’ ‘Okay. I hear you. I’m on it chief.’ ———- In the small village, below the Kopodoca estate, just outside of Istanbul, James made the rounds to gain information on the Turk Mafioso. He had met with the lead that M told him about and the Turk referred to an independent mafia group that had loose local. ”“Maybe. But we are where we are. They exist. And I need to keep writing. I am reasonably certain it’s the only thing that’s kept me sane since I was fourteen. I’m sorry, but I never intended to hurt you.”“Bethany read those! And others! I can’t believe you, Steve! You promised!”“I’m sorry. I can’t undo it now.”“Who’s read that?”And the question that I couldn’t answer without revealing something I was sworn to keep secret. I was beginning to understand exactly why keeping things from people.