Word travelled fast between the two Koba households and the next day Shaun and Fatima were invited to lunch with Dasha and Leeza. Jozef reluctantly gave his permission for the women to leave, though he was unhappy that he couldn't accompany them. Shaun wanted to ask what he was doing that he couldn't come, but hesitated. It was that line between his work and her feelings toward what he did for a living. She wasn't ready to cross it yet.
Shaun changed into a cream skirt suit with a rose-coloured blouse underneath a jacket and a matching scarf wrapped around her tightly pinned hair. She added a pair of heels and looked herself over in the mirror. Conservative but stylish. Not her usual, but she didn't want to cause waves. The brief time she'd spent with the Kobas had taught her enough abou
