I trust her.” then I whispered into Akina’s ear, “Just not with the truth on who the father of my baby is.”“I am married to her Father. So y...u can say I am her Stepmother.” said Akina.It was then that we heard noises coming from the next room. We heard Akina’s voice very clearly. That and two men’s voices.“Well that is a surprise. Dad must have come home early.” stated Ashley.Quietly Akina said, “I don’t think she is taking music lessons or playing video games.” Akina turned to Ashley and in. You might not have heard of her outside San Finzione; she plays Helen on an SNL-type show there, and looks and acts like La Contessa well enough that Helen hires her to fill in at things like the phony STRANGERS conference that everyone in the streets, fifty stories below us, was protesting for one reason or another.Rita and I hadn’t had an opportunity to talk yet, primarily because a Triad hit team who thought she was Helen were coming to kill her in retaliation for an attack on them two hours. She knew what was about to happen, even if she could not quite believe it yet."Err, right" said Nick in a slightly shaky voice, attempting to take control of the situation. "The first thing we need to do is close down the main network. I'll put out a three minute warning bulletin on everyone's screen and you, er, lock the door and put up the Do Not Disturb sign." Okay," said Stephanie softly.Nick watched her do it as he sat at the control monitor with his fingers on the keyboard. He wished that. We had enough ships that not all of them had anything to do.The second group probably couldn’t hear the conference, but they saw the results. They turned around and tried to row away. By the time we reached them, our launchers had been reloaded and the first group was on its way down. One of them was still floating, but men were taking their armor off and jumping into the water.This time we were able to capture two of them. Thunder was still the fastest ship in the fleet, unless we were rowing,.