" I nodded, smiling back at her like a simpleton."Then shall we go, Madame?" I swept my left hand out in an expansive gesture toward the sliding glass... doors leading out front. She nodded; we walked outside arm in arm. I never remembered passing through the doors."This is a lovely place," Karen said quietly, leaning close to me to talk. She was looking all around, smiling at people who caught her eye, and absorbing the character of the establishment. People were looking at her too. I wasn't that. “We don’t have many cases like that, Matt,” one of the Councilmen said. “In fact, that’s the only one I can even remember.”“I’m sure you’re right, Don, but times are changing. We may have taken down a big drug ring, but they will be replaced within six months and, even if they’re not, drugs are still available in any big city. All we need is one drug crazed loony with a gun and we could have a big problem. How many lives are we willing to gamble with? You can’t build a house without a. She directed Olivia to lie across her lap and stick her arse out. ‘You naughty fat bitch!’ Elaine snapped, in a perfect, pristine voice, followed by a swift slap across her hosed arse. ‘You sat on my face in your tights while your husband was downstairs!’ She added another whack with her pantyhose palm. ‘It turns you on when I kick the shit out of the lazy loser!’ Another slap. ‘You whore yourself to professional women with deranged fantasies!’ Slap! ‘Is this true? Well?’‘It’s true, Elaine!. He lifted her firmly and smiled. “Those heels a bit bigger than you’re used to?”Bingo. A Lancelot instead of a letch. Time to act just a little drunk.“I’m fine. God sometimes I’m just sooo damn clumsy.”“You’re not planning on going in here tonight are you?”“Sure was. Why shouldn’t I?” Wobble just a bit Jessie girl.“Look, you’re fine as hell and I hate to send a fine woman away, but things haven’t been right at this club for a while now. Tonight’s my last night in fact. I don’t know.