The last few months haven’t been the same without you around at the office Claire. I miss the laughter, and the fun you brought to the place.’ A c...rooked smile rushed across his face. ‘It’s just that, to me, there was always a hope, that one day we might be something more. I know there’s a spark between us, it was proven at the Christmas party remember?’ ‘The kiss?’ Claire managed to squeeze out of her shocked mouth. ‘Exactly, don’t tell me you don’t think about that. I was always afraid that. He was old enough to be Patty's father, somewhere in his forties, and had fought in the Somme during the Great War, coincidentally the same battle Sir John Stalwart, Jane's father, had fought in. Patty had a huge crush on the man and couldn't help the jealous twinge when he mentioned Jane.Karl stepped aside and for the first time, Patty noticed his companion, a chubby pasty man in a black uniform, almost the exact opposite of her view of Karl Jaeger. "This is my colleague, Sturmbannfuhrer Odilo. She was sitting as I had left her. She looked at me strangely.”Who are you? How do you know?” I took her hands in mine“Mrs Ali, trust me. Close your eyes. Trust me!She extended her hands towards meand closed her eyes. I clasped the handcuffs on her wrists. She breathed in fastand sighed deeply”No, son no stops all this she groaned and opened hereyes. Her beautiful black eyes looked at me. I hugged her by pulling her closeto me. She must have felt my hardness nudging against her body as I hugged. That was something she didn't want to risk, at least at the moment; there were too many things to do and places to see, and she needed the time and freedom to do it.As far as that went, it might be fun to go much further with Megan some time, at least if Megan could manage to not take it as seriously as she seemed to be doing. Whether Megan could do that remained to be seen, but if so, then Susan thought it might make her last year in Spearfish Lake go a lot faster, at least assuming that they.