"You didn't." Her name was Anna," she said as I looked at a picture of a stunningly beautiful young girl in what passed for a skimpy bikini in the sev...nties."She's nice mummy." I said. "Who is she?" She's the wife of an American senator," she had a wistful expression on her face."But then, she was my soul mate, my lover, my bed mate, she was my life Tabatha and I loved her with all my heart."I was stunned, this was my mother talking, my strait laced mother, the one who was the rock in my. She took my advice on certain investments.”“Front companies?”“Yes.”“Laundering?”“Yes Joe.”“Will this threaten her?”“No. My advice was well documented. And the fronts are well disguised. It won’t bite her or anyone. I’m the only one who could be implicated.”“Or worse.”“Or worse. My estate, which is considerable, but only partially covers what I have, will go to Eddie and EJ. Sally’s the trustee. She knows how to handle it. The influx might stop, at least the estate part, but the investments. The sister was furious with her 15 years old brother. But Brenda was calm and insisted the mother not be informed of her son's wicked, perverted ways.Everyone was amazed at Brenda's magnanimous attitude until she suggested the boy should take his punishment then and there. The girls all knew what that meant and, without a word spoken between them, the boy was grabbed, stripped naked and hoisted from lap to lap to get his punishment spanking. Most of the girls giggled and blushed but managed. I made her a belt that she could wear over one shoulder and she placed all seven remaining knives in leather sheaths to keep them clean until needed.She begged me to take her hunting and I eventually gave in to her request. She could be quite persuasive in a nocturnal setting at a time when I only had one thing on my mind.It was relatively easy to get up into the foothills.I had no desire to get into any climbing situation because I knew the combination of ice and sharp rocks was both deadly.