I’d like that.’ When we got back to her apartment block I walked her across to the door. She paused, hesitant. ‘Go,’ I said, ‘it’s late.�... ‘You don’t mind?’ I shook my head. ‘Why should I mind? You’re a working girl, you need your sleep. I’ll see you tonight, won’t I? And we need to arrange when we’re going sailing, too.’ A look of horror crossed Julie’s face. ‘I forgot to tell Jack I wanted to borrow the boat!’ ‘Don’t worry. If he’s loaned it to someone else I can borrow Charlie’s. He won’t. I immediately said sure, please do, I was hoping that seeing you would not end upon our finishing the meal. I told her where I was staying and gave her the room number. She said she knew the place and would meet me there after going home and picking up a few things she would need.I awaited at the room, excited and pondering how the remainder of the evening would play out. I’m thinking that she is intent on seducing me and finishing what was attempted 20 years ago. Only this time, I am not going. She had donned a tight, businessy button-up and pencil skirt that was way more formal than I was used to seeing her in. Her hair was tied up in a bun and she wore a pair of glasses I didn’t know she needed. She wore a more professional face of makeup as well, with dark lips and thicker lashes. All in all she pulled off a hot teacher look that I very much enjoyed, but looked nothing like the Aubrey I knew.“You’re a TA?”“Will Aubrey be able to answer your question? I have another lecture I need. The third musket misfired and by then a man was right on me. We grappled and grunted in the dark, and he managed to cut my forehead and the back of my hand before I got my fingers around his throat and throttled him, feeling his airpipe crunch under my thumbs and then smashing his skull upwards to the stone ceiling.The girl screamed, and I turned to pull a grappling man off of her. A long knife glittered in his hand so I grabbed that wrist quickly and swung where I thought his face should be. I.