Tims from the front of the rig and dragged him to an alley where they had some cover from incoming fire. I started firing at the approaching enemy gro...p that was approaching us. There was another explosion in the front of the Humvee and I fell out of the hatch into the vehicle. I crawled out the open door toward my comrades but was hit in both legs by enemy fire. Since I was unable to move fast enough to get to shelter, I stayed next to the Humvee. I suddenly started to feel the pain from my. With a spare place….now,” she added. “Care to …?” The remainder of the sentence she left un-said, allowing him the opportunity to accept or reject the offer without it being sold to him. “Wow! You asking?” He squirmed a little on the bar stool as he felt a positive thumbs-up from within his trousers. She nodded, and as she did so a smile played over her mouth which mesmerised him. He sat there with a stupid grin on his face and no words coming forth. She smiled again, this time. I was then suddenly struck by fear of discovery. I was an uninvited witness to a private family ritual and had no idea how Jin and his family would take to my snooping. As the men were talking in the dining room, I rushed back to my room and lay in bed.I need not have bothered because Jin did not come back to the room immediately. I wondered what other rituals the family was doing then but was too fearful to leave my room again.I slowly drifted off to sleep as I waited for Jin, but I had no. A fleeting smile crossed Carol’s face as she recalled the event in question. Nineteen years old and I stormed up to the guy’s hotel room and pounded on the door. I wouldn’t dare do it again, not with all the crazies out there, but it seems like it was decades ago and it was only eight years ago—an eternity really. He’d just showered. I think it was the way his thick black hair curled on his neck that did it. He was in his early twenties, tall, dark and handsome. Once our eyes met the rest was.