"I just forgot how much I enjoy being with others," I stammered, blushing.He smiled at me. "Well, no wonder! After all, you've been shut in that apart...ent for over two months. That would drive anyone crazy!" You mean," I stared at him, shocked, "you know?" Of course I know," he replied, "Julia has kept me fully informed." But ... I thought ... excuse me, I just need to powder my nose," I ran to the bathroom, sobbing, shaking, feeling violated. Julia had told him all my most intimate secrets! I. “I believe in you, the person you will grow to be and the couple we will be together. I take you as my wife, my best friend, my mentor, my role model, my accomplice, my playmate, my confidant, and my greatest challenge. I will always respect you, encourage you, cherish you, and love you more each day.“We have started this union as an adventure and I pledge to you to help grow and nurture our relationship. I need your help to make me a better person, to be more loving, to be more giving and. After that, the touching and the feeling became more frequent. It started with technique, but quickly turned into pressing and squeezing. I’d be driving us home from the gym and Mom would reach across from the passenger seat and try to wrap her thumb and forefinger around my bicep. “Gee, honey. Looks like all those bicep curls have been paying off,” she would say, giving it a few squeezes. “You must be swotting away the girls.”I shrugged. I was. My birth mother had been a stunner like Mom and. I can actually trace an ancestor all the way to Queen Isabella. The money I'm paying is mine, not from any campaign fund, or any other source." Give me a number I can reach you, untraceable preferably, and I'll get back to you in two hours." A step ahead, my friend." The man says and reaches into a briefcase then hands Ryan a disposable cell phone still in the package. Ryan takes and and gives the man a look, then smiles as the fedora wearing man picks up his own still packaged phone. "Let me.