"Jacob, I'm your only fucking half-brother," I replied hoarsely.Jacob was the illegitimate child of my father's, who came along a few years after I wa... born. Apparently my father Martin had kept Jacob a secret from my mother and I, sending money from his job as a bank manager (this was before he walked out on us and started the Hollywood firm I now manage) to Jacob's mother. When my father disappeared and the money did as well, Jacob's mother called our house repeatedly until my mother got so. "Lisa Bennett walked through the front hall to the door. Still an attractive woman at 49, she still bore the emotional scars of those horrific three days fourteen years ago. Carl had, at first, been loving and supportive during her physical recuperation. When she had discovered she was pregnant, however, Carl had insisted upon an abortion, knowing the baby's father was one of the bikers. But when Lisa had indicated she could not bring herself to terminate the pregnancy, there had been vehement. My opinion was this was like playing with fire but I was scoffed at and unfairly derided as being afraid of a little girl. When I pointed out Niamh was no little girl but a very big beautiful woman, it got even worse."So yer hot fer me cousin are ya?" she whispered gleefully one night while we were in bed.I was trying to point out the obvious silliness of such a thought but that any normal human male (not me, I'm well above such things) might find a tall woman with long red hair, large breasts,. I can tell you from personal experience that two hundred dollars here and five hundred there starts to add up after a while."Susan got a grin of her own. "I can do that," she said. "Thank goodness for the Internet." Yes indeed. It is amazing how it has changed things in a matter of only a few years. It was not long ago that I was squeezing every penny I could find and applying for every grant I heard about, and being able to search online only became a reality as my penurious period was ending..