“A letter from my mom.” She read from it. “Dear Janet. I was delighted to hear from you. I would like to see you and meet your partner. Any time...is fine, I never go anywhere. Mom.” She held the scrawled sheet for Eva to see.Eva carried some tea and a slice of pie to the table and sat across from Janet. “See? Your breakfast isn’t any better than mine.”“Except,” Eva replied, “that I made the pie so I know what went into it. Lord knows what went into those cheap chocolate-chip cookies of yours.”. The only thing that would have made it more fun would be if Winnie was there with us, but she was happily married (to the observant eye) to Jack, and NOT available for any extra-ordinary exertions with us. They'd left the children with their nannies and lots of guards, and flown the Seven-Thirty Seven to D.C., landing at Reagan, and the Judge arranged with Steve to get them delivered to me."There are some intricate plots afoot, and some of them include killing me and Charles Thornton as their. As these thoughts went through my mind, I heard a door open and saw Hannah walking naked towards me. She smiled softly and padded her way barefoot across to me and parked her shapely ass on my lap and gave me a tender kiss, as she ruffled my hair.“Couldn’t sleep, huh?” she quietly asked.“Something like that.”“Thinking about Jason and Claire, I guess,” giving me a sympathetic look. “It must be hard. I know I couldn’t do what you do. If it was me, I’d have scratched the other girls’ eyes out by. ’ ‘And you don’t mind the crowds?’ I had asked. And all she did was smile and take a sip of her coffee. We had stayed at the mall for another couple hours or so, doing nothing but wandering through the departments. I cannot honestly remember anything that we had talked about, or remember much about that afternoon, except that I was in awe of her beauty and I did get her number as we parted ways that afternoon, the sun already sinking in the sky as we drove off in opposite directions. I had.