Chapter 4 – Doug
My meeting with Vladimir was still more than a week away and Candy and I hadn’t had a date night in too long. We tried to go out at least one night a month, it was our chance to be together, to eat somewhere special and to catch up on our lives. Sometimes we might go dancing or, if there was something worth seeing, we’d go to a movie. It was about being together.
I’d managed to score hard-to-get reservations at a new restaurant built along the shore of the lake on the north end of town. Most of the tables were inside, but I’d managed to reserve seats on the patio. The patio was built out over the lake on pilings, the coveted tables were against the railing and directly over the water. We didn’t get one of those. Our table was in the next row back from the railing. Our ta
