"Very much so." He stared at her as he sipped his beer. "It's a trust thing, I never discussed our relationship with anyone else," he moaned. "It's pr...vate." What you like to keep private things private?" He nodded, and she sipped at her lemonade. "So where does being naked in Knutsford fit in then?" Don't remind me."She cackled. "Why not? I'd loved to have seen it. Of course, I saw all of you before anyway." She smiled warmly and rested her hand on his on the table. Her eyes met his, and she. She would be very hard to turn down- even if she wasn’t his mother. Mentally, he fought with shock and disbelief. He was shocked that his parents would ask him to do such a thing and disbelief that he was actually considering it. “When do you want to do this?” he asked, hoping he’d have enough time to think about it and later turn them down. “Today, now,” his mother replied. There goes time to think about it. “I-I don’t know if I could do this,” he stuttered. “Don’t worry, it will all be OK,”. Better to think of finishing a mission that is incomplete for unknown reasons. And we won’t need all the money... $4.5 million will not be needed.”C: “We have that much?”G: “You have made a considerable amount since you won the gold medal at the Van Cliburn Competition the year you left Julliard. Mr. Antonin has had a series of successful assignments, as you know from looking at the folders in the file. And I have had some modest success in dabbling in the foreign exchange markets ... We might. ”“As well you should be, Lita. So what time?”“Not too late. Is six okay?”“Great. We’ll be there.”I picked up Deena after school. I’m starting to grouse about fighting the after-school crowd with all the traffic. I mean, before, by the time I got out of the high school and fought through the traffic to get to the middle school, their rush was over. Now I’m in the middle of the stampede.Deena jumps into the car quickly. “You look aggravated.”“Traffic,” I said.“Gotcha,” she countered. “Wanna go.