I should have done this sooner."Her phone call was brief and she returned to the living room with a big smile."He's delighted we're coming and can't w...it to meet you. We can have a nice afternoon and Sunday morning with them." Great," I smiled."It's about a three-and-a-half-hour drive, so we'll need to get an early start," she warned."It looks like we'll have nice weather, so we can enjoy ourselves. I haven't been out of the city since I arrived months ago. I'm looking forward to the drive.". That happens to a lot of good men. Just remember, the job here is a lot more dangerous because the enemy isn’t so easy to spot.”“Yeah, I know what you mean. What happened today?”“Some mercenaries tried to stop us to kidnap me. They found out I have a good bunch of bodyguards. Hell, if this was old Rome I’d say I’ve the Praetorian Guard. We represent most of the special forces units. Ten or a dozen SUVs came at us and we trashed most of them. I hope we don’t get too big a fine for all the trash. Add in a good bit of salvage of a piece each of the following mechs: Panther, Commando, Javelin. We now have enough pieces to rebuild a Panther. Yang will be happy. But then again, with having to repair the Vindicator which will take about 9 days, we have to keep Yang in a good mood. He has to replace a jump jet and a med-laser as well as the cockpit assemble and all the missing armour.Medusa was banged up a bit from the damage as well as ejecting so he will spend about 20 days in the med-bays. "Would you leave me if I had an affair?"The air left my lungs. Was Meg thinking about fooling around? Was Iinadequate? Was there more to this conversation than just passing thetime?"Well, that's a hard question, Meg," I said. "I suppose it matters why.And with whom. And how we were doing at the time." All things being good, though," she said. "If you and I still caredabout each other, and we were happy, but I went to bed with someoneelse, would that destroy us?"I wondered what she was getting.