I wrapped things up, as best I could. Rolled up my contacts in every government department. It was their country now. They could make of it what they ...ill.I let my security go, one by one. Until there was only Yakob left.“Sit, Captain.”I was in a recliner on the Royal’s west side, facing the blue of the Mediterranean.“I’d prefer to stand, bos.” He remained in hands-ready position, feet slightly apart, hands above his waist, eyes scanning the hotel.“Of course.” I paused for a moment. “Our time. Before D walked back out to the yard, he said, “I’ve heard I look a lot like my sister.” Then he pulled down his shorts and exposed his little, firm ass to me. “I know you like my sister, so what do you think? I had no answer, I couldn’t answer. D walked out through the sliding door without either of us speaking another word. An an hour of so later, I heard my daughter yell out to me, “Dad, we are going to the store.” Then a minute or so later, I heard the sliding door close. My heart stopped,. I thought you might want to talk. Please pull up a seat. Where are you bodyguards?" Paul said his face pleasant as if talking to an old acquaintance."One of them is recovering from your last visit, as for the other, he is waiting outside in the car." Persephone said taking a seat beside Rachel across from him in their quiet little booth."You knew she would come?" Rachel asked looking from one to the other."She's curious. I imagine it has been sometime since she has faced death." Paul said. He. The daily searches were depressing reminders of my ineptitude and the waste of forty thousand dollars of tuition money. The low point came when Kroger wouldn’t return my calls. I was a failure. One week before the lease ran out on my apartment a friend called and told me that she was going to Hong Kong to teach English for a year. ‘Want to come?’ Her chipper voice irked me and was a reminder that I had never really like her in the first place. After getting off the phone, I mulled the idea.