His mother and father wereall smiles at how their little girl had blossomed. Mary was very impressedbut feigned a brothers expected indifference.Their...mother fussed around her daughter checking and adjusting the dress.Father admired and adjusted their son's suit.Soon after the taxi arrived to take them to a restaurant. Jake was stillunfamiliar with high heels and had to walk arm in arm with his mother wholooked on proudly at her little girl, now almost a woman. The affair was acelebration for. ”“All of what money, Kim? As I said, I only paid about twenty-five dollars for the pair.”Mary came up to her and said, “Let’s go, Kim. We need to get you fitted into a little black dress like the rest of us. That’s our evening uniform, a little black dress, black high heels, and a pair of earrings.”Andy left with them when they went shopping. Mary was taking her to the hotel’s boutique. When they returned, Mary told me Kim had been a nervous wreck, wearing her earrings in public.The. Under the cover of the company, Quince had been distributing stolen drugs and chemicals around the country. Quince avoided illegal drugs like cocaine, and concentrated on controlled, but legal, substances. When Michael had made the mistake of confronting Quince, he had been threatened. Quince had said that if he tried to involve the police he would be in very great danger.Since then, Quince had been reasonably civil, but Michael knew not to cross him. The chance to finally get away from him. Remember that Summer we spent there, how you loved the beaches?" Do you really think I'm anxious to go back to nude beaches now?"His eyes dropped."I was just remembering what a great time you had. I thought we might try to recapture some of those good times. I'll... I'll even try to find Maria," he said lovingly although the memory for him was not pleasurable.Maria was a beautiful Argentine coed they had met in Rio. She and Renee had spent most of the two week vacation in each others' company.