"Looks like it was good investment," Claire commented one evening when he showed her the stack of finished pages."Hell, yes," he said. "If I finish th...t novel by the summer, and Rachel manages to sell it, I think I'm going to have to go back to that store and cut that lady a check for a percentage of the advance." Don't give the tool too much credit," Claire replied. "That book's been in your head all along, after all. The machine is just a conduit. Picasso didn't pay the brush maker extra. She finds herself still wrapped in Riley’s arms. Her body is a bit sore from the hard cavern floor, but the warmth emanating from Riley makes it worth it. She stays as still as she can, trying to enjoy as much of it as she can before she wakes up.It’s about another half hour before Riley does finally stir and the first thing she does is slip her hand up, from where it is wrapped around Nikki’s belly, to delicious breasts. Instantly, Nikki feels the tension in her chest as her heart starts to. If Lisa still were here, Ellie would have been the little girl's adoptive Aunt."You'll be the one taking her to the pub as soon as she's old enough!" Lisa laughed at the look of horror on Ellie's face."Oh come on! It's more likely that SHE'LL be showing ME how it's all done!" They both thought about the prospect that this baby Lisa was carrying might one day morph into a Britney Spears clone, and Lisa grimaced."Scary," Lisa said out loud. "I've changed my mind. Convent education it is." Good. Without being told, Mike knew what had happened; that Todd must have committed suicide. Sure enough, the officers related that several hours earlier Todd had shot himself in his car while sitting in the parking lot of a video game store.Because Mike was Todd's roommate, he was the first point of contact for the investigation. It turned out he also was more useful than the police had anticipated, because he was able to give them a plausible motive for Todd's death. Mike explained that Todd had.