She was a woman in her late twenties and an assistant in his mother’s psychology office. She was obviously invited to dinner but he was mildly surpr...sed as she immediately stood up and approached him after he entered the room. He was even more surprised as she took him in her arms and gave him a kiss straight on his lips. She could do that easily because she was a tall woman and with the heels she wore she was probably only two inches shorter than he. He knew Jill very well because she was. ' Hum! 'The first will be mazzolato, the second decapitato.' Yes," continued the count, "it was at first arranged in this way; but I think since yesterday some change has taken place in the order of the ceremony." Really?" said Franz."Yes, I passed the evening at the Cardinal Rospigliosi's, and there mention was made of something like a pardon for one of the two men." For Andrea Rondolo?" asked Franz."No," replied the count, carelessly; "for the other (he glanced at the tablets as if to recall. Oh, no, the dog was in the house! He'd caught her scent and wanted to play!What to do? If she moved away, the German shepherd would start barking and it would be off to the basement with Becky or up to the bedroom with Mommy. So she stood still, hoping it was just a friendly sniff and not a prelude to a more intimate encounter.She remembered last Thanksgiving when the dog got stuck in cousin Suzy and drug her around and around the house. Kathy had laughed as hard as anyone, but she wasn't. .. you get my drift.I drove out to the location he gave me the address to. Kind of out there, more like an industrial/ warehousing area in the middle of nowhere. I found the business, nervous to the point I could hardly walk, I approached the front door. A sign read, deliveries in rear. The door was locked. I drove around back of the building and pulled up to a delivery door. Parked and walked into a small office. Mark was standing there smiling and said, "Rita?" That is my name I liked in my.