She smiles at him and tries to take her hand away, but he’s holding on still. Her smile freezes. He smiles back politely. ‘Thank you for helping m... find my car, I have to be going.’ ‘Me too.’ ‘Thank you, again.’ ‘Keys, please.’ Her mouth opens and he leans in a little closer. ‘I’ll open the door for you and let you in. It’s the least I could do. If you don’t, we’ll just stand here in the cold and I’ll kiss you again.’ She digs through her purse and hands him the keys. He tosses them in his hand. "That takes care of all the official business, Cooper," Darius told me when he'd handed over the last of the signed documents. There were at least three copies of all of them and some seemed to have a half dozen. I sighed heavily and he put a hand on my shoulder and gave me a reassuring squeeze."Careful there man, you look too much like a football player to be running around squeezing shoulders," I joked."I was a football player, not that long ago," he said with a small frown. "Started all four. When Joe was younger, he had been quite wild during his college years. Nobody could have guessed it after he began working as an accountant, and especially after he climbed the corporate ladder to end up in the job he had recently retired from. However, now that he was retired, Joe could begin to indulge in all his repressed desires, especially that he was now living in a country where many women were desperate for the dollars that expatriates like Joe brought with them.Joe took his time. Sofort kam so etwas wie Panik in mir auf. Hier war ich, vollst?ndig infemininer Kleidung, die ich nicht ausziehen konnte. Noch schlimmer, ichkonnte nicht einmal richtig laufen. Und selbst wenn, mit den Schuhenmachte ich viel zu viel L?rm.Ich war irre erleichtert, als John wieder zur?ck kam. "Ich erinnertemich daran, dass Jane von so etwas erz?hlte." Er hielt etwas hoch, waswie ein rund geformtes St?ck Gardine aussah. "Ich dachte schon, ichm?sste etwas Basteln, aber so geht es nat?rlich viel.