On this occasion he hadn't.Third Officer Angela Parsons sat up with a grin. "Nice apartment," Freddie Clegg said from the door to her bedroom. He was ...lutching two cups of tea. "I couldn't find the saucers," he apologised. Clegg sat on the end of the bed that he'd just left and passed one cup to Angela. "Handy for the Admiralty here in St James's."Angela pushed a strand of blonde her back from her face. "Yes," she said, "Daddy's been very good. It's frightfully expensive. I don't know how the. I switched on the bedside lamp. I felt sorry for our friend, he was taking his breakup from Lori really badly. As I turned back the covers on his bed, I hoped that we’d all still be able to be friends but I wasn’t sure that it would be possible. He was pretty raw, for now at least, even the mention of her name caused him to well up. I went back downstairs, via the kitchen, topping up to my wine and fetching a beer for Steve. He was sitting with his head in his hands and his shoulders were. “Now, Senator Millner, don't lie. You've thought about it for years. You've wondered what it would be like to witness me fucking your wife.”“Of course not,” he groaned.I glanced at Gretchen. “Is that true?”She swallowed, shuddering. “We've... we've... I'm his wife, Becky. Just... just fuck me. Don't make me say this.”I smiled. “Senator Millner, your wife hasn't gone through menopause, right?”He let out a groan.“No, no, she's still flowering,” I said. “I can smell her fertility bleeding through. ’ Handing him the printed out email he read the words, not really taking them in at first and having to read them again. ‘Shit, shit, shit.’ Ellie smiled, ‘And what did you think would happen when your little work diversion got back to her through the newspapers in the UK?’ ‘It’s only that, a diversion. There’s nothing in it. It’s just release from the tension of work.’ ‘She doesn’t know you like I do Mitch. She’s not used to your usual little diversions.’ Scrunching up the e mail from Lisa.