Would you be interested to join me for a dinner sometime soon… Perhaps tomorrow?”. She accepted his invitation and both exchanged numbers and deci...ed on the location.Jim, like a gentleman took her hand and kissed it and finally parted. For the most part of that night he couldn’t get a sound sleep for his mind was constantly assessing the incident that happened earlier in the previous day. “She must’ve been impressed…”, he thought.The moment was fast approaching for his date and he bathed and. "If we would have made it to the upstairs, I would have taken a great deal of time to show her how the faucets work, how much the toilets cost, and every detail I knew about the furnishings and the window panes."She'd have eaten it up — or at least pretended to. Then 15 or 20 minutes later we would have sashayed down the steps. Then all hell would have broken loose. Don't give me that look, you know it would have. But I didn't think that part through until much later. I do dumb things like that. .but I'm saying too much...after a date you're supposed to walk me to my front door."I wanted to bite my tongue, I knew what I'd just said was almost an invitation.Greg must have felt emboldened because his reply was the catalyst for the rest of the evening."Ok, then I'll walk you to your room."I looked him directly in the eyes. The chemistry, the desire was there. I stood up, took his hand, and said, "The perfect gentleman," and I led the way to the lift.My room was on the eighth floor. I. No, he hadn'tmoved. "What's wrong?" Huh? The gun was ... still where she'd leftit. She looked at it, trying so hard to pretend not to look at it. "I'mnot going anywhere Suzy. I'm all trussed up, remember? You did this. Whateverhappens happens, its out of my hands. I sure hope, for your sake, there's nohell." She was shaking so much now with conflicting emotions, that thewater glass was looking like a fluid dynamics experiment. "Look, leave here. Let Carmen and Kathy and whosis else do.