” “How can you be so sure?” Lefleur said and spun to watch Procyon A set. “I’m only sure that if we fail to act soon, all will be lost. And ...here is not just the twelve provinces. We have Five Kriegsmarine.” “What?” “Forgive me, chairman, once we received word of their return, I ordered the renegade ships to the top of the refit list.” “They’re finished?” Lefleur said and turned away from the binaries touching on the horizon together. He maneuvered the chair back to his desk. “Why didn’t you. “Probably,” Tony conceded. “His father seems to hold about half of all the basic patents on solid-state electronics. No matter what you might be doing, you’re likely to be paying a royalty to Mr. Palmer.”“Interesting,” Little Bit said. “What about Tami’s?”Tony thought for a moment. This was a subject that had never come up. Then he snapped his fingers and murmured, “Of course!”“Of course, what?”“They’re both full professors at Cal Tech in Pasadena. Her mother is in engineering and her father is. He was a successful businessman, married to my sister, although they didn't spend a lot of time together unless it was at the office (she also worked part-time at his firm). Although at the beginning of the marriage she was not happy with the hours her husband worked, once his company became profitable, she got to enjoy the dividends that it brought (money, car, designer clothes, etc…). She also organised herself a good social life separate from her husband.They still had no c***dren.As I. It was just easier to leave it under a pillow instead of hiding it in our room ,and having hubby think he wasn't enough for me!So this was pretty much how life was until that fateful ,life changing event.Julie the friend I mentioned earlier was a proper little gym bunny, where as I now ,nearing fifty was carrying a bit too much padding ,or so I thought .My breasts ,whilst always full, heavy ,okay BIG, had been caught up to by the rest of me! The size 14 from 10 years ago had been replaced by an.