"We haven't even seen her yet."The burglars laughed, as the second one grabbed the bedspread and pulled it away, exposing Sonja's beautiful body. Matt...closed his eyes - he couldn't watch this."Please..." he whispered again."Open your eyes," said the burglar holding the gun. "We want you to watch."Matt opened his eyes, as the second burglar grabbed Sonja's legs and pulled her towards him, until her ass rested on the edge of the mattress."Oh! No!" she cried.With his wet tongue sticking out of his. The ring was not there. Trevor looked up at her reflectionand stopped in stunned amazement. Her reflection looked back with avery shocked look on her face. Trevor giggled. It was a strainednervous kind of giggle. She recognized the face that looked back at herfrom the mirror. Oh, sure she was more used to seeing that face as ablonde, but there was no mistaking it. She knew who she was.She was still giggling when she left her apartment and walked over to anearby hair salon where she asked. The Frenchman shrugged. ‘Perhaps. I thought that you being newly married and all, that you’d want to play it safe with your bride. She seems like such a delicate girl.’ Millie’s eyes opened wide at his statement. She had seen Lafleur about town all of her life and he had doubtless seen her, but he didn’t realize that the hungry girl begging for scraps was this same young woman in a wedding dress. ‘I can stand it.’ The Frenchman shrugged again. ‘We have to make a decision soon. See those dark. Budgets, from small corporations to the entire nation, had become both more accurate and more honest. Electronic identity-theft scams had slowed to a crawl; one of his favorite tactics was to add "This is a scam!" in flashing red at the top of the ubiquitous fraudulent e-mails that flooded the 'Net.Altogether, the world was a better place with Spook in it. I kept pounding that point home to Richard."He's not a human, and that's his strength," I said emphatically. "He doesn't pick 'preemptive'.