] Carlos rattled off a string of digits, hisconcern and frustration readily apparent in his voice. "Manuel?"Manuel was ecstatic, he would have hugged ...arlos if he had been there,"Gracias, gracias, (cough) gracias..." Manuel?" Carlos questioned in surprise, turning Manuel's last spoken wordover and over in his mind trying to account for the strange upward shiftin pitch he had heard in Manuel's words. "Usted no ha respondido a mipregunta, ?qu? est? pasando?". All she had on was one of my zip-up hoodies, but the zipper was only done an inch or so. I scooted my chair closer to hers so I could put my arm around her and we could kiss. I felt her need in her kiss, her hunger. This woman hasn’t been treated like a woman for so long. She was more like the moms to Morgan than a wife. And he continued talking about his telescope, oblivious to what we were doing. When I reached inside the hoodie and cupped her breast, she stiffened and then melted.By the soft. We sat in a corner booth away from the normal hustle and bustle. ‘You sound serious, what is the problem?’ ‘I am researching a new novel about the drug trade and as part of that research I came across your name in connection with the alleged financing of drugs. Now what you do with your money is your business, what you do with other people’s money is your business and theirs, but what you do with my money is my business. I want my money back plus of course the interest that you have earned on. A message in code sent by phone would achieve that.Mid-week I heard at work that Sue had caught her new boyfriend with a young woman. She had kicked him out of the unit. My plan had been successful. A week later, I was told that she had taken the new boyfriends clothes and personal items out into the backyard and burned them leaving him with nothing. It seems that when he left his wife she had stripped him of all of his valuable assets in much the same way that Sue had done to me. I felt.