.what we've been doing isn't enough anymore. I want to make love to you. Right here, right now on the kitchen table."Lauren put down the knife and veg...tables she had in her hands and stood face-to-face with her son. "Tom, I know we've done a lot of inappropriate things lately, but please don't forget that I'm your mother first and foremost. So is this something that you really want?" Believe me, I haven't forgotten the fact that you're my mother. If anything, it's made me want you even more. I. .. may I ask what thiswill cost?"I wave my hand and smile at him. "I wouldn't dream of charging you,Frank. Do you have any idea how much money you saved me today? Thosepapers, contained quite a bit of proprietary information about myprocedures, as well as confidential information about two of my moreimportant clients. Had those been lost, it could have caused me greatdamage. I gladly will trade my services for what you have done." Doctor DeVille, that is most generous," he says. "But I. I was only s*******n, so I couldn't buy it formyself, but Eddie usually was able to get me whatever I needed. Still, itwas something. I began to explain the story to Lisa. "See, my cousins..." "Ben, I think we need to break up," she said suddenly, taking all thebreath out of me. I sat there stunned for a few seconds. We'd been going out for a yearand a few months. I thought everything was going fine. "What?" I finallymanaged. "Because I can't go to the party?" If it was, I'd find a. Huntiata ran alongside us, and the surviving five soldiers ran behind, none of them looking back. I squeezed past the dead wolf, and dragged Mom through the space. Huntiata hacked his way through its side, and two soldiers flowed in after him. The other three men tried to get into the space Mom and I had passed through, but they all tried to get into at once. Stuck shoulder-to-shoulder, they jostled in a mania of panic before they were suddenly ripped backwards in a trifecta of screams. We.