Kathleen thought he might be joking at first. But the look on his face told her he was only too serious. He was already out of bed and beginning to ge...t dressed. Kathleen realized he was going back to the office. He was going back to the office as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. She gathered the sheet at her breasts to cover herself and stared at him in a state of shock. They had met at her townhouse during lunch hour as they often did. Michael had taken a cab from Wall Street.. “Sit,” said Shawna.“Fuck you. You’re obviously one of his women.”“I am. I happen to be carrying his child. But you don’t want to know why the man who I know fascinates you has these amazing women sticking with him? Two who happen to be married to him?”“Three,” said Joe.“Liang.”“Yeah.”Shawna laughed. “It’s good you decided not to paint all Chinese women with that conniving bitch.”“I actually met her the next day,” Joe grinned. “It made me laugh, because I really was attracted to her right away.. ”She kissed me again, and because I had nothing to say now, I just let her. I mean how to you respond to that? Sure, you know she’s still dreaming, but you can’t just shatter those dreams and call her silly. She was too young to be injured... shattered ... that way.I thought about it as she sat there and kissed me. I had no idea what to do. She finally stopped kissing me.“Your mother is going to kill me,” I said.“No she’s not.”“You don’t know how a parent feels about her baby,” I said.“Yes I. Approved. Thoreau? Apart from the fact that I'm serving him Comalee tea!"Positively overflowing his chair, Thoreau managed to squirm and a slight flush of embarrassment passed across his features; the Queen just smiled gently at him. Aggy continued"Marcel is my unofficial Intelligence Officer and he has information which he wanted to get to you urgently and discretely, but I've blown that with a vengeance."He passed the chip across and as the Queen slotted it into the portable reader, she.