“Relax, Syd. Please. You can trust me.”“Okay, Bret. I will, I’m sorry,” she said somewhat relaxed, even more when I kissed her cheek. We ...ot to the end of the path and Syd just stood there in awe.“Bret, are you serious about this? I can’t believe you would do this,” Syd said, still in disbeliefSyd was staring at the water. She couldn’t believe what she was looking at. In the water stood a gondola. We were going on a moonlight gondola ride. I wanted to surprise Syd. I’m pretty sure I. There was a boy, Jeremy, which was 9 at the time and a girl, Vanessa, that was 10. Vanessa is a Junior in college and Jeremy is a freshman. Both go to school at the University of Texas at Austin, which is where Lyn graduated. After they came to live with us, we all grew very close and that continues. Jeremy is following in Lyn’s footsteps and studying engineering and Vanessa is majoring in geology. Both hope that they can work with their “Dad” when they finish school. Anyway, I ramble a. I stumbled into the bathroom had a shower, none of it would come off so I got out and dried off. I looked around for my clothes and there weren't any. There was a video tape standing up on the top of the TV. It had a sign on it saying "watch me" so I went over and put it in the machine to watch it. It started out with me entering the bar last night and went from where I passed out to everybody pulling all my clothes off and taking me to a strip club. Here they hired one of the strippers to. I keep a lot of supervisors, probably more than I should, so I can break up the agents into smaller teams to boost efficiency. They get a lot more personal assistance and guidance from their supervisors that way.”“I’m starting to see what kind of boss you are.”“Yeah, a mean one.”“That’s my favorite thing about you,” he said. We shared a smile.I was logging in remotely through my phone, flipping through the bullshit authorizations until I found the call stats.“What the fuck?” I dropped my.