“She could easily carve herself a nice little career in my line of work,” Mattie thought. Mark suddenly opened his eyes and looked directly at Mat...tie and she almost jumped out of her skin. Staring at her, as if daring her to stop him, he reached out a hand and grabbed her ankle on the seat beside him, running his hand up her calf, over the back of her knee and to her thigh, which he began to stroke, carefully avoiding attracting Simon’s attention. He mouthed the words, “I’ll have YOU later,”. Ah there you are,” Dick greeted the Labrador who ambled in from the terrace. The dog followed Sandra, who cleared the breakfast stuff to one end of the big oak refectory table in the capacious kitchen for the Ukrainian immigrant cleaner and laid out the patterns for a new Kurti she was making for Sunitra. Dick left the kitchen and returned. She commenced pinning and marking, loving the exotic material her daughter had bought, envying in a small way, the wonderful dress culture the Bangladeshis. He also noticed gifts placed just in the hall of the bedroom he had slept in. There was: A box of Alchemic apparatus; a bushel of herbs; a set of five black robes, complete with hood; a pair of leather shoes, black also; a sword and sheath, along with a dirk and sheath; an unstringed bow and a quiver of 30 arrows; a parchment journal, blank; and a small box. Lynx put the robes into his closet, minus one, then donned the pair of shoes. He then moved the box of Alchemic apparatus to the storage. She was wearing her heals, I noticed. I gave up another inch, 8 inches total. Another guy would have been intimidated. I was just embarrassed."Come on," she ordered me."Where?" I asked."The parking garage," she said with a sly smile.The garage was our special place. We worked downtown. This was back during the dot-com bubble burst. Our building had a lot of vacancies and the garage had all kinds of areas where if you needed privacy, you could smoke, drink, do weed, some of us did cocaine,.