’ ‘I can understand it,’ Jo said, ‘he has got something. He’s not handsome, he doesn’t really cut such a fine figure but there is somethin... that makes him attractive. I suppose it’s that openness, that joie de vivre. He certainly seems to love life.’ ‘He does and he is very, very generous. He is renowned for his charity work in the area. He is a very nice man.’ ‘Does he ever, you know, talk about Maria?’ I asked. ‘What, you mean the baby? Not now. At one time he was very up tight about it. We. " "So I am not sexy to you?" She interrupted me with a little girl's voice and changed her entire demeanor in an instant. I have never met another woman who could act so convincingly and change from moment to moment like she could. "Yes very sexy, I mean, you know, you are a beautiful woman." I was bright red with my head down, totally lost in her Mediterranean beauty, wondering how all of this was going to end. "I am thinking I know how I can pay you Robert." "Please, no money, nothing." . "Police, ma'am," said one of the two uniformed officers. "Are you Mrs. Akers? Mrs. Kerri Akers?" Yes, what is it officers?" she said wondering if they had somehow found out and come to arrest her for prostitution."Could we come in?" Yes. Yes, or course," she said swinging the door open and admitting them into the small front hall."Ma'am, I'm afraid we have some bad news, some very bad news." It's Kyle isn't it?" she cried, her heart already in sympathy with the young man who had defiled and. "Then you and I are going to go get a U-Haul truck and on the way home, we are going to stop and get you a storage unit. We are going to pack your things and put them in storage and you and Boomer are going to come to stay with me until you get back on your feet."I am not losing a good friend and good neighbor over some damn overpriced orange juice joint! And Buster here would be lost without his pal Boomer!" Really, John? You would take me and Boomer in just like that?" Sure, Sally this is a.