’ ‘I’ll let you in on a secret. We all have to keep working constantly on improving everything we do or see or hear or touch. It’s not a chall...nge that gets done once and then it’s over with. It has to be an everlasting preoccupation with making everything better and better and better, because we can never get it perfect. Your department is one of the best in the state, and yet if we put a good evaluation team in there for a week they’d come up with a list of things to work on that would cover. ’‘Oh Lord!’ breathed Kath as a slightly battered man strode confidently towards them, a bruised, blood-smeared cheek only slightly detracting from his astonishingly good looks. ‘You’re right. He is fucking gorgeous,’ she grinned.‘Hush!’ hissed Jo, her cheeks flaming with embarrassment.‘This is the Detective Inspector, Ma’am,’ announced the officer in a respectful tone.‘I’m just Simon today,’ he smiled in a self-depreciating manner.‘Thank you so much,’ gushed Ivy, grasping his hand. ‘That was. I went near her and asked her for a coffee. Frankly I didn’t want another cup. I had had enough of it already, but the prospect of spending time with her always gave me goose bumps. She happily agreed. We went down to drink tea. By the time we reached down, it started to rain, and people who are from Bangalore might know it that it rains quite heavily here. Both of us were standing like this sipping the coffee and enjoying the awesome climate. The cool climate was turning me on. I was looking. He was a mid sized man with large shoulders, wearing social clothes, stylish glasses and messy light brown hair, his always tense and serious face demonstrating something near to curiosity for the first time. I must admit, youre way different when seen up close he said as he had come to a conclusion Thats a compliment. Thanks sir. I answered looking at him while he was literally sizing me up. That was disturbing me, the man sitting on his big chair with that critical look, evaluating me like I.