Only crazy people come to the office on Christmas. Crazy people with complicated lives. Simple people are at home with friends and family, eating duck...and dueling with their kids."Hello?" I recognized Ishtarru's voice as soon as she picked up."Isis? Is he there?"She hesitated. "I have to tell you something." What?" Her voice was strained and it scared me. "Is he ok?" but my real fear was, is he with someone else."He's fine. It's not him; it's Kaiba-san. He's been sick."Seto had been sick. His seduction is almost complete, I give in, I ask him if we can leave. He smiles with victory in his eyes, and he kisses me one last time and tells me no, I have to wait for him. I have to wait one week, and meet him at the same time at the same place to see if I can seduce him. And he does make me wait, and every day he writes me emails, a note, sends flowers with words of intellectual seduction. I go crazy with the wait, the next week I go to the same place at the same time. he is not there.. ”“I said, “For me, the partners have to talk about those boundaries and the scenarios that might break them – break the trust. There’d be lots of ‘what if’ questions to kick around. We were doing that on the airplane last night.”“We were?”“Sure. I asked you about an open marriage or relationship. You told me it couldn’t be one sided, and that you thought it might be fun. If we’d pursued that, I might have asked you whom you visualized as potential partners. If that didn’t work for me, I might. He didn’t know yet what she was implying, but he knew he didn’t like her tone. ‘Did you think that you could bring me all the way out here and have your way with me?’ Elizabeth spat at him. She was ashamed at how wantonly she’d allowed him to kiss her. Looking down, she noticed how her dress hugged her body, and she crossed her arms and blushed. ‘I don’t know what you do or who you do it with in the city, but I’m not a whore.’ Her words hurt him. Gerard stared at her, unwilling to believe that.