We sat at the abandoned seats and tables outside a small café. They were wet with condensation. She slumped down into the seat, flung her head back a...d stared at the slowly disappearing stars. She looked exhausted. I watched her as she exhaled, sat up straight and brought her eyes back down to look at mine. ‘I caught him with another woman’ She said calmly. ‘I told him to leave the house.’ ‘Your fiance?’ ‘Yes’ ‘But it’s his house, isn’t it?’ I asked, not knowing what else to say. ‘That’s the. His eyes heated a bit and I was sure he made note of every little breath, every expression and every change of color in my cheeks. He seemed the type of man who would miss absolutely no detail. I finally unearthed my voice from the recesses to which it had fled and managed to squeak out a response. ‘A… meeting. I’m late for a meeting.’ He raised an eyebrow. I sighed. ‘My boss and I are meeting a client, and I can’t afford to mess this up.’ A slow sexy smile slid across his face. ‘Not even. After the practice, Brad stayed another hour and a half with Coach Stanton going over different strategies and ideas. All this additional coaching knowledge made his head feel like it was spinning out of control.Coach Stanton placed a hand on Brad’s shoulder. “Now comes the hard part where you have to set aside your personal feelings and think like a coach. You have to scratch two players from the lineup for tonight’s game. I’ll give you a few minutes to come up with the names and reasons. Shortly after I got there, Dave came into the battalion and took over as the commander of the GS maintenance company and we began our friendship. We met again a few years later when we sat next to each other at the officers advanced course at Fort Lee. Dave had also been RIFfed from the army at the same time that I was. He subsequently took a fairly responsible position in a communications company and was living and working in the Baltimore area. Dave was a dark-skinned black guy, married,.