We got in the limo and you had my favorite drink of choice ready for me, Captain Morgans and coke. It was a warm night and we opened the top window, I... got up and stuck my head out just to let the breeze blow my face and to watch the city pass by. You were holding my hips so I wouldn’t fall but your gentle pressure was making me wet with anticipation. We got to your first planned stop, a very quiet romantic restaurant. They seated us right next to the window where we could see the ocean. The. There was a tiny graphite tip reinforced with a carbon fiber rod. An inspector could write his name with it, but it could also take his life in the hands of a trained and willing operative.I got to Paris and took a cab to the Est Hotel. It was very near a train station which was nice, for tourist I supposed. I filled out the forms using my real name and gave the clerk my passport. I didn’t need a backstory. Hell I was a tourist. Just a retired soldier out to see the sights.Since there were no. ."Jim opened his eyes and gazed at Isabelle for a moment. "Issie, you would stick out like a sore thumb. The quantum shadow resonance keeps us from aging, but it also has cut you off from having a life on Earth. You'd probably be dissected if you were seen now."Isabelle gave a sarcastic laugh. "The last dozen years were one gendercidal war after another, each one dirtier than the last. Look what happened in Indonesia last year, all the horrors... So what have I missed? And besides, I can still. ’ She shook her head as if dealing with a particularly dimwitted c***d. ‘Understand one thing. I can do absolutely anything I want to you, and I’m going to spend the rest of your life proving it. The torture and humilation you suffer will be limited only by my imagination, which is to say, not limited at all. And even though you know how much suffering a phone call from me will mean, you’ll pray every morning that that day will be the day I finally call, since I’m the only way you can get.