"But that is the lot of we magicians..." Gregg waved his hands at the box. "Sim Sim Salabim!" there was a flash and a cloud of smoke as Gregg turned t... the audience with a gesture of triumph. He threw the door open, feigning surprise when only Maxine had disappeared. He repeated the exercise, this time Maxine had returned but Victoria had gone. On the third occasion, finally both girls vanished. The audience that had been laughing louder with each of Gregg's "misfortunes" broke into loud. Once they had finished their work, most of them quickly loaded back into their vehicles and left. They were followed by the arrival of another group of men, who were wearing camouflage clothing and were heavily armed. Their vehicles pulled into the parking lot near the soccer fields and most of the men soon dispersed into the trees near there, while some moved into the trees bordering the football field.After the vehicles had left to be parked somewhere out of sight, three men opened the cases. “Your mother would be proud, sweetheart.” I told her, “She was a good cook, and it looks like it rubbed off on you.” She walked around the table, before seating herself, gave me a long, warm, loving kiss, and said, “Thank you, kind sir. I’d do anything for my wonderful Uncle Donnie.” Her hand wandered to my groin and she added, “Anything.” As we ate, I told her that we needed to have a serious talk. “No time like the present”, she said. “I know what you’re going to say. ‘what we did last night. She was the third one and he knew sooner or later she would disappear as well but not before he had seriously crippled the organization.He wondered why the new recruit would be so special and decided to take the risk and Google her name. He whistled as soon as he saw the pretty face of his new target and he knew for sure his allies wouldn’t have any objections to having some fun with her.Rivulets of sweat were streaming down Natalia’s face as she had been trying to follow her teacher’s.