"Molly?" He breathed eagerly."It's all done, my dear. Nice and neat. I told you it would be, didn't I?" Molly smiled over at her young companion takin... in his mussed appearance. He reeked of liquor again. "Truly, Black Jack will probably never miss this fortune. We are only getting our due, after all."Sixteen-year-old Thomas trotted after her like an eager puppy. Not that his behavior around her was anything new. Thomas had been her little companion since the massacre on the Emily Claire eight. ” I said this almost in a flirting kind of way, and for a slight moment, I think that she picked up on it. “It is no problem at all,” she said with another smile as she walked past me. She stopped after she got a few feet away from me and turned around slowly. “I can’t sleep so I was going to make me some tea, would you like some Gina?” “I would love some tea,” I said flashing her my best innocent smile and crawling under the covers, “thank you.” Mrs. Hudson made her way into the kitchen and I. Even after he left “The Company” and lived quietly on his government retirement, everybody in the family actually thought what he had done to earn that pension involved inspecting turbines of some kind. He never talked about them because he said they were boring.But that’s a very long story, and its full telling is for another book. The point is that Patrick’s life had been very different than the life most men live for sixty-three years. He had known love, but never been married. He still. We were all twenty-one and starting our junior year at a local university. John and Jim shared an apartment together, and it was kind of our little “safe place” from the rest of the world.I had known John and Jim since high school and they had openly welcomed me into their small group of friends, which consisted of myself, them and two other guys, one of whom was gay. We were an eclectic group and if we weren’t hanging out at the movie house, then we had a group chat going on social media. We’d.