You've had a long enough break."Paul reluctantly withdrew from Mandy's embrace."I'd better go," he said. "I'll come and find you in about half an hour..."Paul gave Mandy a kiss on the lips and, with a cold stare at Tom, headeddown the hall.Tom leered at Mandy. "Want to give a real man a try?" he said. He was quitetall, rather lanky, and with scraggy brown hair. He had a lopsided smile.What a wanker! Mandy thought to herself. But she also felt rather sorry forhim, even though she was also annoyed. .. "You got a long walk ahead," Hanson said. He had his arms folded on the edge of the window and an unlit match twitched in the corner of his mouth. "Won't take me fifteen minutes to drop you off."Billie-Ann wished she could hide the book with the pack of pictures inside, but there was nothing to do except press it tighter against her tummy and hope that Hanson wouldn't find out what she had. "Really, I... I just as soon walk," she said, smiling for the first time.Hanson gave a knowing laugh.. Elevated the intensity of our reunions, if you know what...”“I understand what you mean,” Luke interrupted, trying not to sound sour.“Unfortunately, exhaustion has replaced intensity of late.”For the second time in a few short minutes, Luke couldn’t help himself, blurting out, “I don’t understand how he can do this to you, and I’m not just saying that because I want you for myself. Because if I didn’t, I’d already have told him exactly that.”“I don’t know either. I could explain it to you using. Glenda did figure studies mostly and she used live models and the models were mostly men and the men were mostly black and that mostly pissed me off and there wasn't a damned thing I could do about it without opening a humongous can of worms; a can full of trouble that could do serious harm to our marriage.I once asked her why most of her models were black males and her answer was:"Because that is what sells."I couldn't argue with that because it was a subject that I knew nothing about, but in.