I'd just made about $10,000 in commission on the house she bought. I was celebrating, too!I stopped back home to check my messages. There was a very b...ief message from Rita saying that tomorrow was the big night. She was going to try to seduce Alex back and try out her newly-learned skills. I sighed. We'd been rehearsing for this for a few weeks, whenever a new question about the art of loving struck her. She'd proven herself an enthusiastic pupil and I was going to miss her when she got back. Cully, thank you, for that selfless offer. Then we'll call it Tuesday evening instead of Monday evening, right?" Yes."I waited & she continued:"Of course I'll call every day and you have his number, right? Right. Tommy said if you needed you should call anytime. Anytime. He wouldn't have a problem with that. He really wants this to work, Cully." I'll look forward to your calls, Girl."I wasn't going to go there, but, went nonetheless. I had the restraint of an olive: "Have you done anything. After all she was in no way responsible for my predicament. Taking a deep breath I moved to our bedroom .Sipping my coffee I looked at the wall clock it was 6:00 am. Normally I leave for office at 8:00 am but today I knew I would leave earlier because I wanted to get over with the worst as early as possible. So by 7:00 am I was driving away to the hotel and it was only then that I realized that before leaving I’d left my laptop in Sander’s custody and Sander comes to the office only by 10:00. YOU MEET US, PLEASE? I SEND YOU TIME OF ARRIVAL. IS IT FAR? SVETLANA, ''ABOUT 18,000 KILOMETRES, I WILL MEET YOU IN AUCKLAND. LAURIE, ' he typed back.There was an attachment with a jpeg of her and Igor proudly holding their airline tickets and passports. Laurie had no doubt John Hargood was the one going to look stupid. He clicked on his favourite photo once again. The one with her in the sweater smiling. He took that image with him to bed.Three weeks later he awoke in the morning as usual at.