10 minutes later they come back with Richard grinning like a cat and Alice looking red in the face. Everything goes quietly as you help Richard around...the room and lower floor. ‘Ok let’s do the paperwork while he eats’ says Alice, turning she suddenly swears, ‘Fuck, left it in the car, don’t worry I’ll run and get it’ she heads for the door. Turning you ask him if he’s ok, Richard mutters that he uncomfortable in the chair so you pull him out from under the table, Richard’s grinning at you as. We are all paid really well at work, we work in a lawyers’ practice for heaven’s sake! So don’t worry. Call it our Christmas present to you from us all.”I could see her eyes watering.“That reminds me,” I said to get her mind off it. “Do you have any plans for Christmas?”“No,” she said. “I’ll be fine here.”“I don’t think you will,” I said. “Christmas is family time–”“But I don’t–”“You will come home with me,” I asserted. “No argument. They’ll love you; you’ll feel at home, I promise.”“Graham you. His words, though, acted like ice water on her libido, and she opened her mouth to scream in fear. ‘Guns and knives!’ she thought she had gotten past that, long past. Instead of screaming though, she broke down, flinging herself at Nicolai, hiding her lack of clothing from the others. ‘YA ne sdelal, Nicolai. Pozhalujsta, paver mne. YA ne govoril im nichto,’ she said, sobbing against his chest. She knew what happened to anyone double crossing the Russian mafia. She would rather kill herself than. At least until an hour later when I realized that I had tomorrow all tomyself as well. I still had that new bottle of purple nail polish I'dbought, I could try it for hours tomorrow and still have plenty of timeto get it off and be ready for work on Monday, and, most importantly, ifI started work now my nails would be dry in time for me to go to bed andwake up tomorrow with painted nails.Half an hour later my nails sparkled from the glitter in the deep purplepolish, as I fanned my hands.