"I'll be right back," he said.Ben returned with a flat box and flipped it open. "Smells good." Yeah," Molly replied."Are you getting your appetite bac...k?" A little."Ben served her a slice and one for himself. He used a corkscrew to open the wine Molly brought and poured her a glass. He lifted his. "To us," he said. She clinked her glass to his and chugged half of it. "Hey, slow down," he remarked."I'm going to need all of this and some of your bourbon, too," she replied."Don't drink too much --. Especially when they aren't in combat gear and looking like these women.However, those soldiers also knew that one or maybe even more of those girls could be a very dangerous individual. They sure hadn't been brought here for eye candy alone. All soldiers knew that these girls would be questioned by their elite team of interrogators.Even so, they also wondered if they would do the same thing to those girls as they did with the men. It sure would be a pity to damage these good looking. She looked at me with shock. She looked down at the rings then back up at me. She flung her arms around my neck and nearly choked me into unconsciousness."I do, I do, I do!" she cried.I turned the pair of us towards the sales lady. "We'll take them." I said thru mangled vocal cords.I gave her one of my rarely used credit cards and she wrote up the sale. Then she made sure the rings fit Izzy's finger, making a small adjustment to the diamond ring.Izzy and I continued on with our window-shopping. .. but wasn't it? If she hadn't gone out that night, if she had stayed home where I wanted her, if she hadn't thought that going out with you guys was more important... You see what I'm getting at?"I wouldn't come from behind that iron curtain. Was it fear of being hurt again? Who knows.Jackie sat up, her spine rigid. Her eyes had turned icy behind the tears. She didn't say anything for a moment, just sat and looked at me incredulously. "Don't you understand, Max? She didn't betray you, she.