"Penny was thoughtful. "Okay, I'll play it your way, Carol. I have always seen you as a sensible woman." That's good, but I wish you had spoken to me ...irst, before you burned your bridges." Burned my bridges?" Yeah. It is an ancient military saying, where once an army had crossed a river, and burned the bridges they used, they had no way back, and had to go onwards. It became a military necessity to move on, and not look back." Oh. I see. I have to go on, having got myself pregnant, don't I?". Gloria saw the two girls sitting, laughing and smiles on their faces. She had never seen Kelly so happy. This wasn't the way she had expected to see Kelly happy, but the Obi-man had said Laura was going to play a large part in Kelly's happiness and future. He had also said something else to "G," something she had not even told her daughter. She just smiled at Kelly with the secret knowledge deep inside."Good morning G," said Kelly with a beaming smile on her face. "You remember Laura?" Morning. Then searching for the properties that Stan’s company owned. Digger came through as my lawyer and found the best way to steal Stan’s company. Stan was going to lose his company, his house, his car, and his other properties before losing his freedom to the IRS.He wasn’t aware that he was going to lose his freedom, yet. As soon as I got the company locked down, I was going to turn over all of the evidence that he was dodging paying taxes for his employees for years and was also dodging paying his. The sun seemed to be was a huge ball of fire threatening to consume everything. This really is a beautiful place to visit. We walked arm in arm into the restaurant and gave the headwaiter our name and went into the bar. We had just received our drinks when a young handsome waiter told us our booth was ready. He sat us near the fireplace across from the jazz group playing soft seductive music. Our booth was two-steps up from the main dinning area. I ushered Suzanne into the middle of the booth.