“Colonel,” I said coolly. “To what do I owe the unexpected honor?”“I wanted to clear the air about what’s going on with you and Beth,” h... said gruffly.“There’s nothing going on between Beth and me,” I told him. “Everything between the two of us is done. Surely, she told you that when she arrived there yesterday?”“She did,” he confirmed.“Are you calling me to confirm what she said?” I asked.“I’m calling to tell you that you’re being a jackass to go through with this,” he growled.“Oh, really?” I. She began pretending to touch her self, That picked them up again. The barman had just signaled “10 to go”, when Amelie dropped to her knees on the floor eager to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Down below the spotlight. And there, to her left, they were! 5 or 6 guys from her new work and they had been there all the time! The spotlight had made them impossible for her to see, but definitively NOT the other way around. Only good thing, they were not from her department, but she had. That messed up whatever coordination either one might have had, and that was the opening I needed. They had no idea of the advances in fighting that had taken place in the 21st Century, so they assumed that I would be swinging at them above the waist.However, I had been trained by masters, so I went for the knee of the man on my right. The club landed on his left leg just beside his kneecap. That two-pound piece of stone crashed into the bone of his knee like a hammer crushing a fly. He fell. It would do both Tami and Judy good to have the extra maternal guidance and love that they clearly missed at home.Mom was right about one thing. We had just bought this house, and it was already at max capacity. We had seven bedrooms and nine people living permanently in the house.On paper, it would be Emily and Tami sharing a room, Judy and Tina sharing a room, and everyone else getting their own room.In reality, we still had five rooms occupied, and two just holding stuff. But we needed that.