" It depends on what you think of as serious, Daddy. I regard it as nice serious. I am speaking to you from the Governor's Mansion, where we spent las... night. He and his family have been very helpful. They would like you and Momma, or just yourself, to take a trip to Rehome for a discussion with the Governor. He says there are complications that can only be resolved by speaking to you face to face." Really? The Governor? And who is going to pay for my round trip, may I ask?" Daddy, I am sure. I gave them a good hour or so, which was part of Beth's plan, to give them time to warm up. Then I made the call."Has he got a huge cock, honey?" I asked Beth when she answered the phone."Yes," she answered. This was also part of our plan, if the coast was clear she'd let me know."How big?" Twelve," she said, adding "around 12 tomorrow should do, thanks."I laughed at her code."Is it thick?" Yes, much more than we originally anticipated," she said, and I knew he was in bed next to her. "It's. On my second try, I shot the mocked-up colonel in the head, and did the same with the bodyguard by the apartment door, but I completely missed the bodyguard near the elevator lobby."Three-point-seven seconds," Grace said."Not bad," James said to me."Hah! I'm a dead man. The bodyguard still standing would have pulled his gun and shot me dead in that amount of time. Let me try it with the zi-wu now." You're just as stubborn as I am," James said. "With some practice, I could train you to do the. ‘Not sure,’ Mark shrugged and watched her bring him his glass of milk and mug of coffee. He folded up his paper and added, ‘It’s finals week, and I do have over three hundred papers to grade yet…’ That was a lie. He had his assistants to do that, and the most he would have to do was just show up to give the tests. He planned to spend most of his time pursuing his other interests and take the racecar out on new tracks, really open up and find out what he was capable of. But what Ellen didn’t.