Zelda! I smoothly introduced myself, expressing sorrow that she had been away during my first visit. She was delighted to hear from me, she had heard ...o much about me, mummy would be delighted I had phoned, yes, she would be at home over Easter and, yes, they would be ecstatic if I would come for the weekend!Two weeks later, on the Thursday afternoon before Good Friday, I fought my way through Johannesburg's rush-hour traffic to Hillbrow and Ruth's large, airy high-rise apartment with its. ‘This is a special piece. The center stone is a morganite and I’ve copied an Edwardian period mounting to wrap around it.’ It was beautiful. It looked like an antique engagement ring, but the center stone was petal pink. ‘Who is this one for?’ ‘I promised I wouldn’t tell,’ Taylor answered with a smirk. ‘Well, it’s beautiful.’ She looked at her own specially designed engagement ring as she continued, ‘The woman that will get that is a lucky one.’ Taylor let out a long sigh before very quietly. I spied the Judge sitting in one of the armored Suburbans, waiting for me. He gave me a look that was part sorrow, part anger, and part frustration. "I am so sorry, Kevin. We keep dangling you out there to draw their fire, and they keep shooting at you."It has to stop, and we are going to be the force that stops them, but if you had left one of them alive, it would have made it a lot easier..."I gave him two beats to take it back, then said, "When people are shooting at you with machine guns,. Kim said she'd maybe go, depending on her other job's schedule. I guess Laura overheard us talking, because she peaked her head around a corner and announced that Friday was her birthday and that her and Kim would both be attending the party the following day. I sort of laughed, and joked that Laura was too young to drink. She explained that her older friends would buy her beer and wine all of the time. I knew Andrew wouldn't oppose Laura coming, he always joked about fucking her, so I said.