Before we knew it, summer was approaching. Maddie and I had talked and, of course, I’d agreed to what she wanted if she could work it out. She’d f...und a summer job in Columbus and had convinced her father to let her stay over, in my house of course. Chuck had scrounged and located a job as well so it would be both of them there. Her father had insisted she at least come home for a week and I had given her money so that Chuck could go too and meet her father. That was a match that I’d do. Stavro refused the offered limousine home and back; as he didn’t care to take advantage of Maria’s status for himself. When Capitan Ortega and Sgt. Pappas; the Ultimado who’d tried to grab Stavro before linking up to form Maria’s human shield with him, offered to take him in apology and gratitude for his assistance in the park, he accepted that ride.A pair of Ultimados flanked either door as the older men and women came filing in. Each of them approached La Contessa, shook or kissed her hand,. Thank you."The box like apparatuses opened and Tani was instructed to exit. She stepped into a room that was wall to wall ceiling and floor mirrors allowing her to view herself from every angle. Tani looked in awe at the transformations that had taken place. Her hair was silvery-blue, a second skin that was white in color covered her entire face hiding all identifiable features. Her eyelids and lips were deep dark black. Her entire body was covered with some type of thin paint like substance in. She gathers up her strength, sits up and reaches over to me, holds my face in both of her hands and plants a kiss on my mouth that is all the passion she can muster forcing her tongue in and probing sucking and moving her head as if it was the last kiss she'll ever have. I had to kiss her back. This kiss lasts for what seemed like a half hour. As we broke the kiss, she breathlessly said,"Oh my God." She let go of my head, and I said,"You see Sweetie, what some lucky guy is going to have with.