Once Bren had established that Sophia had gone up to get some sleep, he intended to take the lift to the health deck and work out the aches from stand...ng and sitting all day without any real exercise. But somehow the lift stopped one deck above the flight deck and Bren found himself in front of the door to the only occupied room.It was a minor running joke on the Silvana that they kept such great guest quarters and no one seemed to want to use them. The truth was that Bren didn't like ferrying. I didn't like the word 'careening.'Mark grinned and said, "Of course not. Behind you will be the six Ninja guys you've been fleeing on skis and snowboards. They'll be carrying semiautomatic handguns and high-powered rifles, and will be shooting at you all the way down the mountain, mostly automatic weapon fire. The guns are rigged to give off high muzzle flash so it'll show for the camera in the daylight.Oh, there'll also be a helicopter shooting at you, but of course not with real bullets, and. .. well, do I put this? Penelope,” I left out the bit about her being Rosita’s daughter, in case they didn’t know and didn’t approve of mother and daughter sharing a man.“Well, well, they do move fast, don’t they? Good for them! Prime stud shouldn’t be left unattended at any point in his life, if you ask me. Including now, in fact. Read this, if you will,” Carla handed me a slip of paper ... from Rosita and Penelope, in Penelope’s handwriting, no less.Jack,If you’re reading this, you’re feeling. I know that Carl has considered it a relief that the property will go to you. He knows you’ll do it proud and fill it with far too many kids, given the number of sexual partners you’ve paraded in front of him.”I chuckled at that. “He still hasn’t met everyone I’ve slept with,” I pointed out. “He knows all the permanent fixtures in my life, but a few of the casual encounters like this weekend have slipped by unnoticed.” I paused, thinking about something she’d said to me in the past. “I think.