She was startled but I asked her to calm down or someone might look at us. For the first 15 days we just touched, groped or kissed. We didn’t go bey...nd that though both of us were dying to. We had a pact that we won’t be attached to each other emotionally coz it won’t go well for our respective futures. Her husband was generally out on his business tours and on one such tour we got an opportunity to explore ourselves. After getting confirmation from her about her husband’s departure, I arrived. Betty kept Bob where she worked posted on our progress. Finally, Bob could take it no longer.Bob showed up on a Saturday with two full sets of protective clothing, all the way from helmets to shoes, with everything in between. Betty complained that this was too much money for Bob to spend, but he told her that he had been taking up a collection among his friends and the cops whom he was teaching, and he had finally come up with the money he needed. Bob did warn us that protective clothing was. I guess that this was possible because he cussed in three languages. That seemed to wring the last of his frustration out of him, because he looked at the two of us and said, "I guess that we will have to go to Plan B, though I don't know what Plan B is, yet."We spent a lot of time talking, the gist of the discussion was whether or not we wanted to take on an international drug ring. None of us really wanted to get involved in this heavy a commitment, but we also didn't want to walk away from. I was just going to checkwith you to see what your plans were for today. I've got some meetingson the west side of Charlotte and thought maybe we could get togetherfor lunch? You pick the restaurant, somewhere you like and I'll meetyou there. How about it?"Jennifer was surprised. Even though they lived but 130 miles apart, shehadn't really expected to meet him in person. Not that she was worried;he had made her very comfortable with their friendship. So, it didn'ttake her a moment to respond..