Carol’s a great gir, l full of fun. How is it with the two stripes?”“Oh, we’re having dinner tomorrow night so I’ll want the Ford.”“Caro... was talking about her. She was surprised she accepted your lunch date. Seems she doesn’t go out all that much with other men. She was engaged to a pilot who was killed in Malta in the early days over there. Her father runs one of the intelligence sections at headquarters, quite high up in the pecking order by all accounts.”He left them to it to have an early. She cut me off, “Look, I think we need to have a talk. Come here and sit down.”“Can I get dressed first?” I asked, a little apprehensively. I was worried about how long this “talk” might take, “I’m getting a little cold.”“No,” she was adamant. “I said sit down.”No? Did she just say, “No?” She never stopped looking me in the eye. She didn’t seem angry or come off rude, just forceful, direct – powerful. Her perfume coupled with, what she was saying, how she was saying it, the way she was. The length was so short that it barely covered her heart shaped ass. Tonight Paige absolutely loved it. She paired it with her pink Valentino black lace-embroidered peep-toe heels. With a last look, she was ready to go. Paige sat at the bar in one of the more upscale clubs in town, sipping a lemon drop martini. At thirty-seven, she was one of the oldest women in the club as far as she could see. She laughed at herself for being so foolish and she decided she should leave. She finished her. ‘She saved me from becoming the worst sort of misogynist pig – growing up with my mom and my sister, that could have happened so easily! I miss her, is all.’ ‘I’m sorry I made you come here, if it’s that…’ Kelly said gently. Doug shook his head. ‘It was my idea. And I’m grateful, really, although I wish you could have seen it in my own time. You didn’t miss by much, it just closed down when I was about halfway through Columbia. Three years, maybe? That was another reason why I vowed never to.