I stopped worrying about the President and remembered something I'd meant to ask Evan about before I'd been distracted by cute baby tigers at the Mira...e, "What was Robert talking about when he asked you to 'think it over and get back to him'?" My grandfather is beginning to think about taking a break, his words not mine. He asked me to take over his spot on the Council for a few years while he took a vacation."I felt my eyebrows lift in surprise, "He can do that? Just hand his spot over to. I shutdown the computer and started cleaning the house as instructed and kept going until I was finished. Just then I heard a car pull up and peaked outside to see who it was. It was my wife and her friends and I immediately began to panic. She got out of the car and grabbed some bags from the trunk before heading into the house as her girlfriends drove off. I returned to the living room and sat on the couch dressed only in her panties waiting to see what she did next. She came in with a number. As I told her this, she sighed and said, "what you going to do? Scream for help? Spank me? Better be quiet or Billy or Daddy or Mommy will hear you and come running to help poor little me." Thinking better of it, I had to agree that she was right. It would be nothing but trouble for me if I made a big deal of it. Instead, I asked her what she meant when she said I looked like her brother? She replied "Well when Billy jacks off, that's what you boys call it isn't it? His peter grows like yours. The toughest part would be getting from the house down to the dock. Once we were in the boat, it would take someone with a boat to catch up to us. The ferries didn’t run at night. We’d be long gone by morning. We haggled back and forth for a good hour before everyone was agreed on a plan that would get us all away from the immediate danger of Geoff Gilliam and crew.The goodbye kiss between Angel and Simon made my stomach ache.It was close to two in the morning when Angel and I carried our one.