We can keep this as our little secret,” I whispered flirtatiously with some nervousness. “No one needs to know.”“I don’t know,” Cliff pond...red out loud, with a glance up into my eyes.“What do you mean?”“I know Bob and the board have fired people for less,” he said matter-of-factly.“He has. Cliff, you can’t say anything.”“I suppose that’ll be up to you.”“What do you mean?”“Your full cooperation.”“Wait, are you…?”“This was all your idea, Katie. And it’s been fun.”“Yes, but.”“But I’ve just been. Looking back towards the engagement I took notice of the number of rebs, at least thirty, and saw that all my guys were dead, or captured, so I flew back to camp with the report. It wasnt until I gave my report that someone noticed the blood on the back of my neck, I had been grazed by a bullet and not even known. That really unnerved me, I was already done with this war shit. But the officers had other plans, thats the thing about war, if you do stuff, they want you to do more stuff, if you do. He had told me he enjoyed cycling and often went on long bike rides. I remember thinking "Mmmm. I wouldn't mind riding you". Then I spotted him. Saw him come on to my doorstep and heard a knock. I went to the door, opened it to see a drenched postman. His clothes were stuck to him. "Where's your coat?" I asked. "Damn weather" he said. "Didn't bother with a coat as it was supposed to be hot". Do you want to come in and dry off?" I asked him. "If you don't mind, that would be great" he replied. I. .. Roberts first just needed to ‘help’ supplement the reduced production of the Hidalgo mine operations and then in the last twenty years also help get Poravuvu started, once Renny neatly managed to restore the monarchy and make himself king of the island in the process. I bet if anything, all of those sunk costs are just fish food to what Wheels needs funding for now!”“It’s worse than you could guess. Here and now, I barely control 25% of the stock and any well-organized take-over attempt.