" Yeah, I do," Tom said with incredulity. "But, John, this isn't a secure line." Oh. Sorry." John coughed. "Uh, everything I said was hypothetical, ok...y?" Of course it was," Tom said. He hit a button on the phone and activated a universal jamming device that the infamous Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano had given him several years ago. It kept the unscrupulous press and anyone else from listening to Tom's phone. "Now the line is secure. Next time warn me." Thanks." John sighed in. All of dad's partners are showing up at my review hearing slashexecution, unannounced, including an associate that has a littlebackground in employment law. It should scare the living you know whatout of them." Wow." This is your classroom, right." Yep." My meeting is in a few hours, I'll just stay around for a few classes,make sure Principal Sattler, doesn't pull anything. I can make it toMidtown in forty five minutes in my car." Mom opens the door. "MisterLewis, I am just dropping Dani off. How...wha,” I shook my head “Who are you? And why are you in that box?” I finally managed a coherent sentence after full minute’s stunned silence The tiny woman smiled, perhaps at my confusion“I would have thought Dorian would have told you. My name is Lilith and I am a succubus, a sex daemon. I was bound to this box as a genie three hundred years ago and served all my masters well.” Her voice was soft and sultry, even though she was talking in a matter of fact manner it somehow seemed to. Clean all of the supplies that I bought with soap and water in the sink." I'll make a criminal out of you yet," he said, immediately regretting it since that was precisely what he was doing. She didn't seem to notice the bad taste of his remark however."And you?" she asked. "Have you got everything you need?"He patted himself down quickly. "Three pairs of gloves, my hat, my gun, my cellphone. Short list."Though both of them had cellular phones and would keep them turned on, they had decided not.