Everybody had left the office. It made me mad that I was working so many damn hours and everyone else leaves at five. As I walked out of the men’s... room, I looked out the door and saw Kristen pull up to the front of the building. She pulled off her sun glasses, leaned over to pick something up in the passenger seat, and then proceeded to open the door. My first look of her out of the car was her high heal brown shoe show up below the opened door. I smile came across my face seeing no pants. Candy lifted her bottle to her lips, and raised her middle finger mid-swig. The lift operator swore under her breath and raised one of her flags. The lift kept raising, not even slowing down as it passed the waiting platform where Jack and a few other passersby stood.The people around her grumbled, and a few tossed rude gestures towards Candy which were returned in kind, but for the most part nobody seemed surprised. Jack walked to the edge of the waiting platform and looked down at the tangle. Shejust wanted to spend more time together."Honey, I will rush home right now, get it done and shower. I should beback in a couple of hours. It wouldn't take long for me to get into thatadorable mouse outfit. I thought you were going for something morestudly for me." Oh no, Dean, you are mistaken. You are going to be the cat, and I, amgoing to be the mouse." What? Why would you buy me a woman's costume? I am not happy one bit, Iam not going to wear that." Dean, you said that you would be happy. It’s good to overreach. But if we do it, we do it properly.” He addressed Zac: “Put together a team out here, and I’ll start the ball rolling in London. We’ll get the experts you need, and you can go from there. Okay?”Zac started jabbering excitedly about ways this would help the country, and several other ways to spend the new money. He was evidently someone who genuinely thrived on helping people.And, annoyingly, I found that my bad mood had gone.Before going to bed that night, I rang Ed in.