The wake was being planned for Eastlake Football Club, where Dennis was a life member, but a date hadn’t been set; no doubt one the funeral director...started work those details would be sorted out.One visitor who surprise me was Kim Beasley, the Federal Defence Minister, he arrived mid-afternoon. I answered the door, and he recognised me.“Will Morris! You keep turning up at so many unexpected places,” he said.“Kim, comrade, great to see you,” I said. “I’m good friends with Dennis’s daughter,. ’ ‘I’m not sure…’ ‘I heard what Cora said Love. It’s true all we really have to change is to look more intimate with each other.’ Xander reached out and grabbed Lexi’s hand and pulled her into his embrace. ‘Ok Xander…let’s give this a try.’ Just then the door burst open and in walked Adam. ‘I knew it! How long have you been hiding this romance from us!?’ He ran over and hugged Lexi. ‘Welcome to the family…Sis!’ ‘Adam!’ Xander tried to slow his brother down. ‘Leave us to talk privately.’ Adam. She had an excellent day in class. She was able to fully participate and keep up with the norteamericanos. She was not any better than most of them, but she hardly could have expected that after just one day. Still, her efforts at studying had paid off. For the first time in three years she was learning something that actually was worth knowing, something that was a complete break from the futile life of pleasure pursuit she had led before her arrest. During the break she talked to the female. That fact made Danielle, to her chagrin, weak in the knees. This wasn’t like her and it was irritating but the more she thought about it she knew, from the first moment she had laid eyes on him, that he was not soon to be forgotten or pushed from the foremost thoughts in her mind. He looked so professional and so… dreamy. Wait. Danielle stiffened. Who was this man and why was he in her office with her boss? And why did it have to be today, of all days? Kirk glanced over his shoulder at the new.