She made the choice to leave and never looked back.It was our first official date, but we’d been circling one another for months. We’d both taken...the next day off work. There was no doubt where the night was heading. It was just a question of how we’d get there.“I can give you a push,” I told her. “If it’s what you really want.”Her big blue eyes widened."I want that," Sadie responded.“What do you want?” I asked.She bit her lip, stared up at me, and batted her eyes.“I’m not some college boy. How you doing this morning?"Felling a little depressed that he wasn't going to be around today, she just shrugged her shoulders. "Fine, I guess. So you got a meeting or something today?" Yeah, sort of. I have a customer that introduced me to a friend of his, and since he is in charge of purchasing, I set up an appointment to show him our line of paper products. Got to keep beating the bushes, as they say. Listen, I should be back around 11:30, so I'll see you then."Megan was about to say. Initiallyi didn't realise what they were doing until a white lace headpiece andapron were produced and I was told to do the ironing. I was wearing aFrench maid's outfit when there were two women in the room who would havelooked better in it than me.I told them as much.Andrea told me I was being sexist again and as a penalty she would notunzip me and I would have to spend Sunday dressed as a French Maid too.By the time I finished the ironing I fell asleep on the sofa.I woke the following. " Why is it called the last fortress? I thought Rio had never been invaded." Corvus smirked. "At least, that's what we learned in school - Rio semper intacta."Gaius nodded. "When the first settlement was built at Rio, it sat between the Stagnum Colonus and Bay-of-Rio. The land there was better, less sandy. But this position was much more defensible. The Oracle-King convinced the settlers to build a redoubt here, saying he had visions of massive armies of Injos sweeping in from the north. When.