They weren't over to talk really, but to suggest some private time with Greg or with Sarah or with Greg and Sarah. When our couple hesitated, they wer...e met with a friendly hope that they change their minds.Throughout this, Sarah and Greg had been holding hands, and her grip on his hand had been slowly tightening over the twenty minutes since they started. Having sex deliberately in front of other people was a whole lot easier in thought than in practice. They realized that it was very different. ‘Thanks,’ he told Aviendha. She just gave both of them a withering look, snorted, and stalked back to her desk around the corner. Raina let out a breath. ‘Whew,’ she said. ‘That was ugly.’ ‘I’ll say,’ Laurel said. ‘You just about got Alan’s face knocked onto the floor.’ ‘Oh, he would have been fine,’ Rained told her, waving a hand down. She turned to Alan. ‘Wouldn’t you?’ ‘Uh, sure, I think so.’ Laurel snorted. ‘You should have seen your face. You were all scrunched up and just waiting for it. I knew that after the harvest they would be gone and I would be safe again. Then came the disaster. One of them stepped off the trail onto a side animal trail to urinate. I could see him reaching for his fly. He stepped right into one of my small animal snares, it tripped and jerked his foot out from under him as the branch snapped back. He was too heavy for it to hold him, but he let out a loud yell as he fell. The rest came running, one of them almost stepped on me as he went by. There was a. The Minister was anxious to meet the local contact as well as yourself."Ah, yes, thought Gerry, now I understand. He remembered the briefing notes with the profiles of the various members of the Kushtian Council of Ministers. "Randy old bugger," someone had scrawled in the margin alongside the entry for Kashim Kushnar, the Trade Minister, and Suzie was an attractive girl that he would no doubt welcome the opportunity to meet.Meeting The MinisterGerry made his own way across the city to meet.