Yes..yesss??. An irritated voice remark, ?Faisal, you better quit smoking that smelly cheap cigar. It?s screwing your brains?.AURORA couldn?t help her...self but laugh out loud at the silly exchange between HER captive and his unwitting commander. From the myriad of close circuit monitors in the security room, AURORA could see all the rooms, corridors, stairways and elevators of the enormous building complex. SHE could see armed men moving around and herding people around and gathering. I mean, I always wondered why you never made a pass at me. I couldn’t have made it more obvious I was interested, and I’ve seen you staring at me. I mean you think you’re clever like you’re doing it on the sly, but we have four classes together and have had four classes together for years. Your eyes are crawling over my ass for pretty much the entire day. Even though you’re with this chick now I still feel your eyes on me, only now you look guilty.”I still couldn’t wrap my head around what she. " I can do that." I'm at the Holiday. Room 221." Six-thirty work for you?" Just fine."Betsy was taller than her sister and had bigger breasts, but the hair was the same and in the face you could see that they were sisters. I took her to Three Margareta's for dinner and then we hit the Wheel for drinks and dancing. As usual it was full of people that I knew. I spotted Cara and a couple of her girlfriends in a booth toward the back. There was one open table near the front and Betsy and I took. ‘But I do believe in karma.’ ‘Same thing, really.’ said the Chief. ‘Whatever you believe in, you were meant to be where you are now, doing what you are doing. And so it was, and so it shall be.’ ‘You planning to become a preacher in your retirement, Chief?’ I asked in a joking voice. ‘You can tour with Robert Patterson of the Oldeeds Group, or fill in for Pastor Westboro at First Baptist from time to time.’ ‘Or become a Police Chaplain, like your buddy Steven Ikea.’ teased the Chief, giving it.