They were the result of Adrian Brightly’s unorthodox method. Adrian Brightly had remarkable hypnotic abilities that he was happy to put at Colin’s...service for an appropriate fee, of course. Lynda had been pleased by Colin’s interest in her personal development and his recommendation of an Advance Influencing Skills course. She had readily gone along with the pre-course one-to-one briefing to establish needs and had really taken to the course director, Mr. Adrian Brightly. He had really seemed. Welcome back. How was the cruise?”“Just fine, thank you. Listen, I have to ask you, what’s going on with the wedding present. Suzie says Mom wouldn’t say what it was, but that we’ve lost it. What’s going on?”“Uhh...” Dad hemmed and hawed for a moment. I could almost hear the gears turning as he tried to think of something.I pushed a little more. It certainly wasn’t the value of the present that I cared about, but I needed to know what was happening. “Did Hamilton destroy it? Suzie says nothing. Said to be worth $6-billion!" Nice. Where's he keep it? Under the matress?" All over the place. Rumour has it that he's got most of it stashed away in an armoured vault underneath his London house in Regent's Park. In gold bullion." You don't say?" I conjured up the idea of owning a couple of gold ingots, to have as a nice pension policy for my old age. I squeezed Tristran's arm tightly. "Couldn't fix me an introduction could you, darling?"He stared straight ahead and smirked. "Are you free. As I was walking out of my 6th grade class I turned to the teacher giving him a wink as I did everyday. he called me to his desk. i walked to him stood by his chair. He waited till the classroom was empty then reach out and snapped my garter belt straps that were showing from under my boy pants (UGH). What color slut he asked. "Yellow" i replied. he opened the desk draw took out a container and handed it to me. "poor this over your lunch and eat every bite, then meet me in the basement" I.