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  She beams as
her cheeks flush.
    Outside of the Chick Lit Bookstore…
    Sully turns from the SUV and hurries back
inside the store.
    Inside the Chick Lit Bookstore…
    He gets as close to Katrina as he can
until she steps back.   He tries to
lock eyes with her, to ignite a connection like the one he saw between Katrina
and Felix.
    “It was real.   It was real ,” he
says with heartfelt conviction. “Please don’t forget what I said when we were
making love.”  
    He turns and leaves.   The interaction with Sully rattles her
as memories of their magical date, their lovemaking and the fact that she does
believe his conviction, sneak past her defenses.  
    Outside of the Chick Lit Bookstore…
    Richard opens the front passenger door of
the first SUV.   There's a post-it
stuck on the dashboard. Richard pulls the post-it off and reads it:   Pick Katrina up at 2:00am.
    Richard shows Walter and Sully the
post-it. “Tonight we move,” Richard sneers, looking like he’s finally close to
his prize and honoring the threat he made a year ago.

 
    *****

 
    Katrina rows down the urban river in her
single person scull.   She's
especially focused and determined, trying to work out all of her conflicted
feelings and her nervousness before the remote theft later this evening.
    She finishes up her workout and rows over
to a dock, parking her scull.    As she gets out of her scull Walter approaches, joining her on the dock.
    Katrina is so not happy to see him.   “Geezus.   What do you want?”
    “So, your ride last night, I suspect it
wasn’t in a beat up Nova,” Walter quips.
    Katrina ignores him.
    “Your new friend Felix isn't as noble as
you may think he is.   He stole the
remote to rent it out to the highest bidder.   There have been at least a half dozen known accidents
attributed to the remote that have caused over five hundred deaths worldwide.
See for yourself.”
    Walter hands a folder to Katrina.   She opens it up and sees support
documents regarding the various events allegedly caused by Felix and the
remote.
    Walter continues. “Yeah, boo hoo, we
played you.   But it will have been
worth it to the world once we get that remote out of the free market and back
under the protection of the government. You were fooled by Sully. Don't be fooled
by Felix.”
    Walter walks away from Katrina.   But then turns back, sporting a snarky
grin. “You should thank us for having Sully pretend to be your buddy Paolo,” he
chuckles. “If you only knew who the real Paolo was.”
    “Whoever he is he's been a treasured
friend and your spiteful and despicable actions will never take that away from
me,” Katrina proclaims.
    Walter walks away.   Katrina flips through the
documents.   She doesn’t want to
believe this about Felix.   The
moment in the limo, their connected moment where he asked her to trust him
replays in her mind.   But he did
pick her up in a limo and after what Sully did to her, can she really trust the
intense connection she feels with Felix?

 
    *****

 
    It’s late night.   The two dark SUVs arrive and park in
front of the Chick Lit Bookstore.
    Walter and his two agents are in one SUV;
Richard, Sully and another agent are in the other.   Sully gets out.   He enters the bookstore, looking pretty nervous.
    Katrina, dressed in dark clothes, wearing
sneakers, total cat burglar, is by the counter placing a small high-tech
handheld computer into its case.
    “Are you ready?” Sully asks trying not to
sound like there are a million thoughts and feelings running through his mind.

 
    “Just about,” she replies.   Katrina puts a small stack of paper
clipped index cards with hacker "cheat sheet" notes on them into the
case.   She places the strap of the
case over her shoulder leaving her hands and arms free.   She and Sully head out of the store.   She locks the door.
    They approach the SUV.   Sully opens the back door.   Katrina hops in, followed by Sully.
    Inside the