The other girls faces were all filled with shock and confusion. I stood quickly. "Ma'am you can go now. Everybody stay here," I ordered then ran after... Kelly.Kelly was sitting on a small log watching the waves when I ran out on the beach. I sat down next to her and stared too."I'm sorry," she said after about five minutes."For what?" I know you hate when I say things like that."I sighed, put my arm around her, and pulled her in close. "You're a big girl now. You can talk the way you want to. But. "Tom, I just came back from the doctor. I'm sick."I was scared. I knew she hadn't been eating well lately and always seemed to be fighting a cold. I had urged her to see a doctor for sometime now, but she always blamed it on overworking."What is it? It's serious, isn't it?"She nodded."We can fight this together. I'm here for you," I grabbed her hands and held them.She took a deep breath."Tom, I don't know how to tell you this, but I have to. I have contracted HIV." Aids?" I said. My hands. And two champagne cocktails, Henri.”“Of course, madam.Then we were simply swamped by apron-clad waiters, all of whom wanted to pay court to my sultry luncheon partner.“Here’s to us, darlink,” she whispered, raising her flute and, at the same moment, wrapping one leg around my calf.“So where are you living now, Carlotta?”“Just around the corner. I have a duplex apartment overlooking Green Park.”“Very impressive.”“Heinrich – he was my third – left it to me in his Will. And where are you now,. Gibbs had spent a couple of evenings with Fornell, Fuller, and a few of the other guys, but they were huge gamblers and he wasn't. He'd been eager to fly home today, but the DC area was closed down by a huge blizzard and their flights had been cancelled. Fornell and the others were looking at this as another night on the town, but Gibbs had enough of socializing with the same guys and had begged off just after eating a quick dinner with them. But he found himself wanting more than he'd find in.