..So I finally strip her out of her armor of playing hard to get. She hugs me.H: (starts to tear up) I’ve missed u so much Max... I`m tired of your ...tupid friends and teammates hitting on me and drooling over me. When will u be truly mine? And only mine?Me: Soon.We start to kiss gently, romantically and yet so passionately.Assholes in the back start cheering, yelling and whistling and her stupid girlfriends start to giggle and whisper into each other’s ears, but neither of us cared. It was us. She had cleaned most of the blood out of the indentation, andmade a go at the carpet with a steam cleaner, but it didn't take muchimagination to see what had happened."Oh, Julia," I said. "I'm sorry."She wrapped the towel back around herself and gave her head a shake,tossing her damp hair over her shoulder. "I know, Mike, I know. God it'sstrange calling you 'Mike,' when you look like that." She shot a quickglance at my face to see my reaction to that, and there was fear in hereyes. My heart. ‘Paul! What are you doing here. I thought you were still posted in Geneva?’ Thomas had been working at State with Dean Acheson since the War, though he had been a strong Eisenhower supporter from the old days. Thomas approached quickly and took Carpenter’s hand in his, he could see the sadness plainly in the old diplomat’s eyes. A million emotions crossed between the two in that brief exchange. ‘What are you doing here, Jonesy. Shouldn’t you be helping out with the transition?’ ‘No, Paul, I’m. Call it revenge, getting even, even love, but the end result is the same. Lucy Barrett lost her virginity that night in David's third-story studio apartment in Alexandria. It was all over so quickly she could hardly remember it now; of course, being perfectly soused might have affected her memory a bit. And looking back, she felt not the slightest recriminating pang, not one. She took David home to their Valley Farms house the very next night and treated Kate Barrett to a bit of her own.