" Not really, Cari. Oh, I can't deny that I did think of Marianne sometimes, but not every time!" he grinned.She stuck out her tongue. "You!"His face ...ecame serious. "No, you were — are I guess — amazing. I loved when I was with you. I just ... I guess I just got cold feet."He hesitated, but before Caroline could leap into the gap he continued, staring into the space beyond the far wall, "Since then I've met another girl. She's gone back to university now, in Liverpool, and we were never meant. . get me?"I got her all right. All of a sudden, I wasn't looking at somesubmissive, dependent, wife. I was talking to an entrepreneur - a wellmuscled, physically imposing entrepreneur at that. Not only that, but thebone of contention was another of the same ilk... who was looking at mewith what looked very much like a desire for a physical confrontation, onewhich, I had a sudden intuition, might not work out altogether in myfavor."O.K." I capitulated weakly, probably setting all of the. Due to the self-inflicted head shotwounds that these perpetrators preferred over capture, it was difficult totell what they really looked like in the photos he had seen. He had noidea they were with this convincing. Whatever this is, it was not theusual haphazard drag used by men wishing to disguise identity duringrobberies. Something more complex was going on. Whatever it was, he wasgoing to treat them like the gender they looked like."Hi. What should I call you?"They had not cuffed her. The woman was treated too though but hers was only natural.Before I left, I said, "Draw the tattoos on the men too. Keep them separate."I was going to check the old men next but KhAvar said, "Would you check the children next?"There were guards everywhere in the basement so I knew that Lazeez was safe. When I got to the door with the two guards in front of it I heard a small sound on the other side. There should be nobody able to gain their consciousness.The two guards had been talking to each.