CHAPTER 24
Susie greeted me with an enthusiastic hug, which I returned as enthusiastically. I came close to kissing her. I wanted to. I really wanted to.
She asked if I had eaten supper. As I flew first class, I had, but I took the hint and told her no.
This body can easily eat two dinners. Besides, it will probably be nearly four hours since my first dinner by the time we eat.
She admitted she had not either and hoped we could enjoy a meal together. I almost recommended a restaurant but refrained and silently admonished myself. Michael was not from Kansas City and had been playing the pauper. He would not have my encyclopedic knowledge of great places to eat. I deferred to her taste.
She picked a lovely, quaint, Italian restaurant off the Plaza that I admittedly had never heard of, w
