Board room -part 2 as Amanda sat down next to him he had seemed to be more focused on work than on her even though the subtle hint had been sent, as s...e moved her chair to his right side her shoe fell off her left foot, pretend to assist him her nylon toe slowly lifted his pant leg up and she slowly began caressing his calf. Her left hand fell upon his right leg. He froze looked at her as she said, we should take a break! As her hand moved ever closer to his crotch his hands grabbed her head. I stood in the front row, my three-year-old daughter Leanne by my side, holding my hand. Her short, white dress contrasted perfectly with the olive-gold colour of her skin as Isobel, her half-sister passed by smiling happily.There was a great deal about the last few years that I did not want to remember. The accusations, the recriminations, the bad feelings that even now permeated my relationships with my ex-husband and children had been hard to bear, but in most cases, had been justified.But. ’ Grayson’s eyes were no longer sleepy, but alert and a smouldering dislike growing in them. Grayson’s words sank into Garreth and he weighed each one with countenance. Why didn’t the Earl allow her contact? Why has he been acting so nonchalant about the entire MacRae raid? Why hasn’t anything been done in the investigation? Too many things started to come to the fore and shed a bad light on Douglas. ‘I think we’ll need tae a pay a wee visit tae Douglas and find out about a few things. There’s. He forgot all about Belinda his wife and Belinda his competition for Xenia. He forgot all about the death he had witnessed out in the field, the fear, the horror, the misery, the blinding fatigue and weariness. He listened to music and even tried his hand at dancing when one of the women invited him out onto the floor.Alas, the male to female ratio was somewhere in the vicinity of six to one, even with the waitresses and bartenders thrown in. Though he was a combat veteran and worthy of the.