They have a very strict policy on brass bands. I checked before I gave you my key."It was amazing she could keep a straight face through all of that. ...wo heartbeats later we both broke up laughing and I gathered her up into my arms, rolling us on to our sides and kissed her. Where she had not been fully awake before, there was no question she was now and kissed me back. What started as a tease for her doubting my sincerity rapidly expanded into a full scale questioning of my being and she was. It meant she had to come up with something on her own that would appease him."Dad, I don't know what you want from me. I don't have time to study half the time and I only get in trouble because Emily..." she could see his face growing red as he tightened his grip on the pen he had been holding."Maybe I need to be a little stricter with you. I know I'm busy with work a lot, but you need a little more discipline."Mara had no idea what her dad was getting at. She shifted her weight onto the other. “No, It’s Deputy Purcell,” The voice answered.“Is Lois around?” I asked.“No, she went home. She has to get ready for her niece’s baby shower,” Purcell said.“I need some information about the case. How do you feel about getting me an address from the crisscross directory?” I asked.“Sure they have that information on line now,” Patty said.I held on while she keyed the information into her desktop computer. She came back in a couple of minutes with the name Michael Everheart. She also had his. Good diet and an almost obsessive devotion to physical fitness had left her with a body that was actually in better shape than when she'd gotten her first role. True, there were a few lines in her face that hadn't been there a few years back, but there were just enough to give her character, as her mother used to say.Her breasts had stood the test of time as well, she liked to say. Another result of a daily exercise regiment. Running her open hands across her chest, she wondered if anyone of.