? I hope I didn't catch you at a bad time." He smiled the demon smile of my dreams and desires, and I nodded numbly as I teetered to the kitchen an sh...ky legs.? "And dear?" - I paused as I left the warm room for the halway - "Don't touch yourself.? I expect you back promptly."I must have put on the kettle, and steeped the tea, and brought it back. ?I couldn't exactly remember. ?I remember pouring him tea, and then myself, and that he was smiling at me perfectly companionably with a hand resting. , Mrs. J," said Tom gallantly. "I've got you." Tom," slurred Mrs. J., "I think I'll head up to my room and sleep this off with Greg." "I'll take you upstairs," said Tom, an evil smile on his face as his plan was working to perfection.The gorgeous mature woman, who was sexier than all of the women there 30 years her junior, leaned against him for support. "I'm glad Sam and Vanessa have such good friends," said Vanessa slowly, her words slurring even more. "I'm sorry that you have to leave the. He was also the head of the system's intelligence service. I moved to the balcony door and smiled when I saw it open. I slipped in silently and glanced around the huge office. Everyone was supposed to be down in the assembly hall voting on a new law.I glanced at the door as I bent to check the desk comp. When I saw it was just asleep I touched the screen. I pulled a small device that looked like a data drive but was not. I plugged it in and entered a set of commands. I looked around as the desk. I imagined that it was Annalise we were burying, because for all intents and purposes, we were. My sweet Anna had been driven from her own mind and body by Charlotte's Hostile Takeover. She was an innocent, but bad things happen to good people too.In the first few weeks after the funeral life got back to a semblance of normal. I avoided Charlotte/Anna as much as I could. I spent even more time with Amanda. No one thought it was odd because she was after all, my mother in law. We were the only.