" he said as he slide his arm across the back of the booth and effectively trapped Rachel against his side."Really?" Amina asked in a drawled out voic...."Of course." He's your brother?" Rachel squeaked as Amina turned back to her to take her order."Guilty. He's one of them -- knotheads, one and all!" Amina said as she waited to take Rachel's order.Rachel turned and looked over at Sergio. The louse had the audacity to smile broadly at her."You are a rat!" she hissed."Brutta birbona!" Smerelda. Can you perhaps make enough coffee for two?”“I can indeed. How do you like it? Black? Cream? Sugar?”“Yes.” She eyed my preparations. Okay, I’m a bit of a fanatic about coffee. The water boiled. I poured it over the grounds in the press, stirred, put the top on, then turned.Mimi was watching, amused. “I bought a Keurig,” she said.“I’ve tried ‘em,” I replied. I get more control over the process with this.”“It’s more work.”“‘Course it is. But I really like my coffee this way. Now, what about. ”“Jill, we talked about this kind of thing. This ... this isn’t right. It’s not healthy. Even you at first drew boundaries about me not fucking Karen. Then you made it sound as if she changed her mind. I thought that her easy acceptance was suspicious and I should have listened to my instincts ... and my wife’s intuition. Consuela here was a sex worker not long ago. She knows how to tell when a woman’s ... not into the sex.“And it made sense, better than that lie that you fed me. I should have. It was a pretty impossible task but if it kept him out of her way he was quite happy to waste his time, after all he was getting paid for it. One last thing she did to annoy him was to give him Dr Susan Reynolds as his assistant, another one who hated him for being gay, still he could just ignore her and keep her out of the way. He was allocated a lab in the basement away from the main scientific areas and where no one would come and visit, it suited him. He was to report any progress in the.