“She’s a younger and prettier redhead,” Lidie filled in my thoughts. Philia’s eyes fell downcast.“Shit!” I huffed. “When you went out to...ight, did you like Ike?”“Maybe, mostly. It wasn’t an amazing first date,” she shrugged. “I had fun. I was going to see him again. There’s promise in him and I didn’t want to not get a fuck out of it.”“Why didn’t you fuck him tonight?” Lidie asked.“It was our first date. He needs to know he has to work for it,” Celeste said.“No, he doesn’t. He needs to know. Hah, you'd have to search far and wide to find anyone in Essex who didn't have a grudge against him but I played dumb, even I know that grassing to the coppers can be unhealthy. The grapevine has it that Dawed Hussain found out what had happened to his charlie and that was that, game over. Rhonda assured me that she'd kept quiet and it wasn't her that had let the secret out but, as she pointed out, if she'd known Jack’s involvement then it wasn't exactly the best kept secret in town.Anyway Jack. .. open-minded. I could kiss a pussy." Shit," I said."Your permission, Katie. I don't have sex until you tell me I can. I'mtrusting you to do the right thing." Shit," I repeated."Yeah," Lilly said. "That about sums it up."* *On Friday, our apartment was like a sorority house. Lilly was going outdancing with William. I was getting ready for Charlie. I had pasta on thestove. Lilly and I kept bumping each other as we passed, as I was graduallyputting on my clothes."Oh, I like that bra," Lilly. The gentleman introduces himself as Constantine, confirming that he was the man we were seeking.He is older, probably in his mid-fifties. Distinguished, tall and well-built, he has a full head of dark hair, trimmed in a classic short style, tinged liberally with gray. He looks a lot like Anderson Cooper, a bit older, but his hair less gray. His voice has an English Canadian accent.He is well groomed and fit, a man of some significant position in a local corporation. In our exchanges it was.