And Max's body with Fran inside gotback from the business meeting with the financial backers.Max's jaw dropped. C.C. was praising Fran's businessacume...n! If she knew she was praising the woman who hadstolen Max's heart, she would have a fit!"My God, Maxwell, what in the world got into you? You drovethose flint hearted bankers to the wall. You chewed them upand spit them out! These are the best terms we've ever gotten!"she embraced a very unwilling Fran in Maxwell's body."It's like you are a new. With Becka sitting in the pilot's seat, we made the trip from the Fortress in just under an hour, doing a continent crossing sub-orbital skip. Sealed into the flight cabin she had opened the hatch at 30,000 feet and I had slipped out under the meager light of a new moon. At a thousand feet I kicked in the jets and did a bright, burning decent into the lightly wooded area, finding the beacon my comm gear was looking for.Blizzard was dressed in frost and ice.That's probably not literally true,. As I catch sight of her face reflected in the mirror I become transfixed. The features are of eastern origin, almond eyes, high cheek bones, small mouth. She wears, for me, a little too much make-up, more in keeping with my image of a starlet of the movies. But what an exquisite beauty, the features expressionless until, having studied her twin image in the mirror, she smiles revealing too, too perfect teeth. Suddenly I feel the blood rush to my imperfect cheeks, I am a voyeur who has been. "Yes ma'am," but I have to help when I can, Its my nature." "Stop calling me ma'am," I said authoritatively, he turned around and looked at me with a worried expression. "Call me Harper!" He immediately relaxed. "I'm sorry but I have to thank you for such a nice meal somehow." I sat on one of the stools next to where he had been sitting and observed him work. He was quite strong and masculine, but polite and courteous. He was still shirtless and wore blue jeans with brown leather cowboy boots,.