Stepping from the room he scanned the pool for Carol. She was at the swim up bar just flirting with the guy. The two them were sampling drinks, laughi...g and Paul could see the guy's eyes taking in every inch of Carol’s barely covered body. It never required much alcohol to pave the way with Carol, and Paul could see that she was at that willing point. He slipped back to the room. At first Paul paced the room, and then forced himself to sit at the desk to calm himself. It seemed like it was. He set it carefully back, reached down to the footrest lever and retracted it so his feet rested squarely on the floor. He sat up, composed himself, and said the magic words:"You may show yourselves now. You have my attention!"Three MusketeersMichael had argued for the better part of an hour until Marie's steady, implacable determination that she was part of the team finally wore him down. He turned to Steve, quite exasperated and half upset with the man:"A fine lot of help you've been, sitting. . don't dress like you usually do when you're notworking."Her eyes went wide. "What? You want me to wear a dress?" Something like that." He sat back in his chair and laced his handsbehind his head with a very satisfied look on his face.Mel shook her head as she went out. Way too confident andmanipulative. No wonder she wasn't that keen on the guy. And she hadjust agreed to a date with him? Ugh! Oh, and he wanted her to dressup too? What would be next?Chad heard his cell phone ringing. Shane turned his attention back to Tracy and said, "Here, some guy was selling these over by the hotdog stand. Merry Christmas."To my chagrin, he handed her a bouquet of flowers.SHANEI'd gotten a little miffed that Tracy had just bolted ahead of me through the crowd like that, and then a little more miffed when I'd finally spotted her making goo-goo eyes at her friend's date, and then a little MORE miffed when I'd realized said guy looked like exactly the sort of bloke who used to throw me in.