" Wow!" I said when we'd finally escaped and were in the car to drive home. Erudite. That's me. "Rhonda, I had no idea. I just come in on Saturday mor...ing and do my thing and everything is in order and is perfect. It just never dawned on me how much work it was to make that happen. And how..." I couldn't say how good she was without sounding like I didn't think she was good before. But I'd just seen a whole new level of good. So had everyone else, including a half dozen guys who wanted to hang. "Does...this have something to do with the queen's illness?"Jennifer smiled. "You catch on quickly. Three months ago, the kingpaid your mother ten million dollars to build a new body for her. Shewas all set for...the process next month, when your accident happened.Your body was being built for the queen. When she told the king thathis wife's new body would be delayed, he was not happy. But she saidher son's life was more important than some spoiled European bitch, toquote her." I saw just the. She quickly told me where she lived and added that I shouldn't come before 9:00. Then she hung up and I sat there staring at the phone.I headed home after work and could already feel the guilt creeping in. Although I flirted freely with any woman who would flirt back I never crossed the line. Now my bluff had been called and it happened so fast that I didn't have time to get out of it. After dinner I said I was getting together with a couple of the guys and took off on my Hog. It was only 8:00. If you had gone through the proper procedures this wouldn't have happened!" If I had gone through the proper procedure Shannon Royal would be dead!" Trisha countered."IT WAS HER CHOICE!" Judge Herns yelled angrily. "Do you know how much work you've created for the people below? It's going to take hours wiping this from the temps memories." "Is that how you measure a person's worth 'Judge Herns', by how much work it creates for others. Besides, this was your fault. Why did you turn her into a.