I didn’t ask you for any promises before offering to fool around, but what you’re saying is, basically, we can fuck ourselves silly, but once the ...ummer session ends, that’s it? Just friends again?”“That would pretty much be it, unless you had some burning desire to become religious.”“Not a chance! I haven’t set foot in a church except for a funeral or wedding in my entire life.”“Do me a favor, please.”“What’s that?”“Think about it and we’ll just hang out with Clarissa and Jocelyn this. Another thing is that once these people make bond, they frequently disappear. And ... they have the resources to hire the best attorneys to represent them – the ones who stick around to go to trial, that is." I also need to apologize for wearing a weapon inside your home – even if it was unloaded..." He left the sentence hanging.Jeff grinned at the new Alpha. "If Ship had asked, I would have told her to leave your weapon as it was. I suspected you would arm yourself before coming to get your. When I do, that'll be it until I know it's safe to talk to you again." Oh Chris. I love you so much, I'm going to miss you." There was a pause. "Stay safe. Look after those kids." We will, that's what this is about. I love you too, Mum. Bye." Wait! Can I talk to Shahia?" Okay."He passed the phone to her; she was crying from what he'd said. "Hi, Helen."She listened to the phone for maybe a minute, not saying anything. "Thank you. We will. I love you too. Bye."When she gave the phone back, Chris. In one corner a percentage counter was clicking up. ‘It takes some time as my laptop doesn’t really have a large enough processor and this programme takes up a lot of the disc. It took something like ten minutes to complete and at the end the percentage counter was indicating sixty-six percent. Tina was impatient. ‘What does that mean?’ ‘It means that these two people have a very high possibility of being related. I believe the police with a correlation percentage of seventy-five percent would.