But most of Kim's shock was simply because she was looking at Susan in the flesh. Kim had a deep crush on Susan, even though the two of them had never... met up close before. Kim's feelings started in early November. Katherine had been confiding to Kim about some of her new sexual adventures with Susan, back in the very early days before she fully realized the danger of sharing knowledge of incest with anyone else, and Kim had gotten so excited about it that she'd begged for and received a photo. Skyped negotiations were not going well. So, we decided to have a face to face meeting. Our small town and even smaller facility would not be conducive to selling our ability to meet their production demands. Therefore, we arranged to meet in Las Vegas and booked fights and hotel rooms for everyone and a conference room in which to meet. Besides, it could double as a vacation for us which would be our first vacation in a number of years. For the first three days our negotiations didn’t seem to. They man-hugged, patting each other’s shoulders. Both speaking their greetings at the same time. As they released the hug, they let their arms graze. Fingers entwined as they held a short gaze. Neither man sat down.Luke spoke first, ‘I want to kiss you so badly all I’ve thought of all the way here is how I’d not hug you like we usually do I’d take your hands and kiss you, properly kiss you and I haven’t kissed you. Can I kiss you?’ He spoke in rapid, fast breaths and laughed at the end.‘You can. "Dalton, I need to go now before I change my mind," she said walking briskly towards the door. I was flabbergasted, I started to chase after her but then stopped. I could do anything if she changed her mind. I was disappointed as I was sure she wanted me as much as I did her. I felt like that same kid standing at the side of the school as she drove away twenty seven years ago. She went out of my life so abruptly back then, after changing it so significantly. My coffee was now cold and my paper.