"I'm glad you told your crews that," Jeff said, grinning. "It really hurts my feelings to tell all my women to put their bras back on. Oh, yeah, how a...out you and Evie working to update the computer as the crews arrive. I don't know the names of all the workers." Yeah, we've already talked about that. We'll take care of it." Come and get it before we throw it out," Diana said over the PA."Let's go," Jeff said getting to his feet. "I'm hungry this morning." And ... that's something different?". "That is all very well," said Father, "but they will want Festmauer, and I have two sons and another daughter." Festmauer was a small stronghold on the Spait river which Father held from a baron. Her brother William was Father's castelan there. What it had to do with the visit, she could not tell."If they want Festmauer," said Sir Daniel, "they will find a way to have Festmauer. Far better that they have Festmauer as a dowry than as a conquest." Which explained what it had to do with the visit,. Over the seven years that we’d known each other we’d chatted a lot, spent a lot of time playing Scrabble online and just goofing around. I seldom drink, and the only times I’d gotten drunk since college had been with her or with Cathy and Anne, another friend from work. We’d all get together at Cathy’s or Anne’s place with a few bottles of Cathy’s homemade wine and just talk, sometimes for hours. I was just one of the girls, despite being a guy, and I quickly found out what women talk about. Or so I thought. ‘Hey, Alyssa, that cute older guy is here again,’ Sandy the hostess said to me as I was refilling sodas at the beverage station. ‘He’s waiting up front.’ I stiffened a little and almost dropped the glass I was holding. I knew exactly who Sandy meant. And so did Katie, standing next to me. ”Cute older guy?” she echoed with a sly grin. I blushed. ‘H-he’s just a regular,’ I said, trying to play it off. ‘He came in with his wife and daughter one night—’ ‘Yeah, I know,’ said Katie..