But downtown Overland Park is civilized. Retail, restaurants, bars, a good mystery bookstore. Actual pedestrians, something not seen in most of Johnso... County. Fucking Kansas.Eva continued, “We have three kids, two girls and a boy. Then two years ago ... I lost my fourth baby. Miscarriage. A boy. No more kids for us. Which is fine, we’re blessed with the ones we already have.”I waited, she’d get to it in her own time.“But it had been eating at me. Like a low grade fever you’re not quite aware. Meri breath se ek dum unhone ne thodi siskari maari aur meri taraf thodi peeche ho gayi. Meri toh jaise jaant ki lottery naikal gayi. Mein bhi unki neck ke aur paas aaya aur unko kiss ker diya. Unhone ek aur siakari bhari aur mein table se uth ker unke samne khada ho gaya.Mein thoda ghabraya hua tha aur mujhe nahin samajh aa raha tha ki kya karu toh maine unka face apne hands mein liya aur unko lip kiss ker diya. Unhone kiss nahin kiya waapis mujhe per mujhe koi farak nahin padha. Mein unko. Of course some of what we learned I already knew and for the most part so did the rest of my party. We knew that there were over thirty city-states in the region and all of them paid to do business in Langhorne City. We also knew that there were just as many pirate enclaves in the region which was why everyone paid to do business in Langhorne City. Mai Woo had briefed us on this before we'd told the consortium to send us there. Still it was nice to know that her intelligence was good. We. “Where are you off to?”“Liv, the lady down the road was nice enough to offer me her workout equipment. We met during the Skogsmulle trip yesterday.”Sven had a smile from ear to ear. “Oh, did she now? Let me tell you about Liv. Back in the day when we were all in high school, she was quite the hottie and rumors had it she would do all kind of things.”Rob patted Sven’s shoulder. “I’m sure she was, but all I’m interested in are her weights.”Sven watched him slowly jog down the gravel road. Liv.