" Ah, an honest woman!" Brent grinned as he rose from the bow thatkissing her hand had him in. "I do appreciate that. Unfortunately,Garret and I se...dom agree on much of anything. But this time I do findmyself in hearty agreement with his choice of brides. You are lovely,obviously possess wit and the ability to use it, and don't flinch fromtelling people the truth. I'm sure my brother has told you little ornothing about me." An oversight I will correct, brother." Garret chuckled then. 'The threat was understood, and finally I took the burning cigarette between my fingers and to my lips. I drew some smoke into my mouth, and after a minute blew it out.'Inhale it asshole.'The knife had been laid on the table, but the guy picked it back up. I drew smoke into my lungs, then immediately doubled over in a coughing fit, the harsh smoke choking me. Not surprisingly they found this hilarious. When they finally settled back down, I was ordered to try again. This time I used greater. I, however, have never been caught. 'I work for the DeMoeira business family, from whom you have stolen wellin excess of one hundred million dollars. Your pride enabled me to catch you:it was the work of moments to figure out who had taken these ten million, andwhy, and where that person would be heading. The rest was simply lying in wait. 'The DeMoeira business family consists of much more than just the DeMoeiraInvestments Company, but also have some rather darker connections, stretchingback. Marnie smiled back at me. "But you have to eat to keep your strength up for later; after all I'll be missing you and my little friend all day." Hey, not so much of the little! You can do a guy's ego a lot of damage talking like that, you know." I replied, with a playful hurt expression on my face."Oh go on with you, you know he's plenty big enough for me." She said grinning, and gave me a gentle kiss on the end of my nose. "Now get off to work, I've got to get ready for the office or I'm going.