Her voice showed that she was very interested in learning every detail I could share."You heard about Nancy, right?" Duh, I do believe we all teased y...u about that at lunch," she reminded, struggling not to roll her eyes."Well, you didn't know that she was my Docent, way back at the Institute."Amy's look confirmed that she was now firmly hooked, and I began to share as many stories about Cayman as I could. Aside from the few details I'd shared with Eliza, this was the first time I'd ever opened. What little security they had, was quickly overwhelmed, and hustled from the area. A very low volume voice came in on my earpiece. “Surveillance?”The reply came back. “Objective clear ops.”A third voice came in, “Hit it.”There was a bright flash and earsplitting explosion. Followed seconds later by David’s team storming the corridor. Three of them ran past the objective, Paul’s squat. The next two went into the alcove, while the two remaining stood guard at the entrance.“Entry to ops. We’ve got. "Her expression of happiness of getting dressed for her date with Rickydidn't make me feel overly confident and I'm sure I had a sad expressionon my face when she said that. She must have noticed because she tookmy hand and said, "Chloe, I didn't mean anything by that except it wasfun getting all dressed up pretty. Surely you can understand that. Youknow how fun it is to buy new clothes and get pretty and I haven't doneit for quite a long time so I was just enjoying the feelings. I. As he walked to his car, he let my hand go with reluctance, and I got in my car. My hands were trembling again, but I was able to drive home. Despite having made our plans, Steven called me every day between the two dates. Just to say hi, he said. I loved it. For our next date, Steven picked me up at home, and we actually went hiking in the afternoon, then companionably ate fast food in the car. We ended up back at my apartment, which fortunately I’d recently cleaned. There was a good chick.