" Only it took Jay a long while to show up. Too much time laying just about naked in bed with serious deep conversation resulted in Kristen placing a light kiss on my lips. Which turned into me caressing her. ”Dave tilted his head and nodded knowingly, “OK.”“Do me a favor, and I’ll mention this to both Cindi and Julia, too. Tell your team to keep those kinds of smackdowns private, away from the hearing of managers or supervisors. Julia was right to put an end to it, but it might have been a better idea to end it sooner.”“I’ll take care of it with my team. Ally was right about Maddie throwing her chance away. Her work has been good, but her attitude has been poor and she doesn’t ‘play well with the. "Of course," she said, sensing my seriousness. "You know from seeing my paintings that the beauty of women has always been one of my biggest inspirations. At art school, my still-lifes and landscapes, though technically proficient, were never inspired. But when the subject was a nude woman, usually one of my fellow students, no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, the sight of her naked innocence, as it seemed to me, who could not see what might lie within, filled me with rapturous delight.Read More