" No." That's right."It was hellishly frustrating, just being able to listen to half a conversation that was going to change our lives completely, but...finally, she switched her phone off and told us he'd been surprised at the leniency of her demands and had agreed immediately. "He'll be here tomorrow afternoon with all the relevant documents, the company lawyer will draw them up today, and we'll have a quickie divorce by the end of next month. He knows if I tried hard enough I could get. Someone jimmied the car and took them." Dammit, Lisa! How could you leave it in your car?" I half shouted."I know!" she said. "I was stupid! You can join me in tearing me up for making such an amateur mistake. My idiot brother was there but I don't think..." Did your brother take it, do you think?" I asked."No, he's not that smart," Lisa responded. "He'd just smash the window. Listen, before you go, we have a ticket stub that was in the appointment book. S.W.P. on the keys could be Seawolf. A couple came over and rested their heads on my leg.After an hour of contemplation and petting the head of each dog when they came over to rest their heads on my leg to get their ears scratched, I finally figured out the issue. I was surprised that so little had been said about my treatment of the sniper. When Will and Ray arrived, and asked about the prisoner’s condition, I didn’t deny anything. In fact, my reply was a tacit admission of what I did.As I continued to ruminate, I reviewed my own. S: How about I read you this draft of my next novel?Me: That sounds interesting. After getting published, I have read your books. But getting to hear the first draft will be special! Go on.I was still refreshing the website every 5 minutes. She now turned her chair and faced me and started reading her draft. I was wearing trousers and a polo tee. As she was reading it, in a few minutes, the story got intense (you know, romance novels have all these love-making scenes in them).She was reading it.