. help you."Silence on my part seemed like the most appropriate response."I'm afraid ... I know you may not like ..." she paused, searching for the ri...ht words. "You may not appreciate any of this to begin with."Somewhere deep inside me somebody grinned softly, and at the same time I felt the blood rushing down to my loins."... but I think, indeed I am sure, that it's necessary for you." What Mum?" I asked innocently. "What's 'necessary' for me?" Oh Dear," she sighed deeply. I ... I ..." She. ’ Aloof. ‘In control.’ Controlling. ‘You shouldn’t be an English major, Jen, you should be training for the diplomatic service. You could sell shit and position it as organic fertilizer, or plant food.’ She didn’t feel the need to respond. ‘I have changed. Jeff says it was there all along. The stuff I cared so much about six months ago just doesn’t seem that important anymore.’ ‘I know exactly what you mean. I changed a lot, too, after I met Jeff. He makes you question the reasons you do. ***Women’s intuition may be BS, but a policeman has instincts born from training and experience. There was something off about Sam’s story, and I suspected there was more to this than he was letting on. It didn’t add up; k**s after d**gs money don’t pick locks, and they don’t leave a laptop behind. Come to think of it, he had said laptops. How many did he have I wondered?At work the next day I ran a records check on him. There was nothing. I tried different spellings of his name, but there was. "People will recognise you." She suggested that I go to Doctor Woodforde and ask whether I couldarrange some surgery to make me look the part better. "But I don't wantto be more womanly!" I protested."Of course you don't!" she agreed. "You're a man, and no man wants to bea woman, but you want to feel more confident about not being found out ifyou work so closely with my mother, especially as the company told you tostay apart."It was true, I was deceiving the company which would be a.