"I'll text before I get back here but I'll plan on picking you up around eleven to eleven thirty tomorrow. Bye, Sweetheart," she said as she gave him a sweet kiss and a short, warm hug. As she drove away, he turned to enter the hotel. It was fairly old dating to the early 1900's and had been remodeled extensively. A small boutique restaurant was off the main lobby downstairs and there were three floors of rooms above. He strode across the lobby and took the elevator up to the fourth floor. At room 401 he paused before knocking. He heard the chain rattling before the door opened.

Suzanne was...