Jake had to be present, just because he was family, and family was one of the values Diaz held in high esteem.***The old building downtown had been re...ovated to accommodate new offices. Jake was pretty sure that he hadn’t seen that happening, but he hadn’t been downtown for a while. He feared he and his brother looked like total punks dressed in their regular t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers. As they stopped at the third floor and walked into a large hallway, his feeling of inadequacy only. You definitely need aliquor license. A lot of people want a beer or a drink with their meal,and booze is your biggest profit center." Oh, I guess these sketches are out then," Bill said, unrolling a pieceof drafting paper.Maria studied them for a few minutes. "Yes, you want the kitchen here,with the bar here, not the other way around. That puts the dining anddancing area further away from the motel. And you don't need such alarge kitchen. Any chef would love a place that large, but you. That was immediately suspicious because the time was pushing 3:00 o'clock. Where had they been during regular dinner time? We Arkansas country folk were almost religious about getting our dinner as near noon as possible, so these men looked like they had been up to something around that time.We three held our guns where they were immediately available, and the sheriff said, "You men are trespassing on private property, and I'm the sheriff of Bollard County. These two men are my deputies. I'm. My ever-hopeful cock was standing up at attention under her guilty stare but she made no move to grasp it in welcome much to my chagrin.The dubious fact that I had been born a female called Mabel Mahoney a thousand plus years hence, died and was denied entrance to Heaven's pearly gates until I had found a female willing to give up her life in love for me was a shock to my system that still mystified me beyond compare. I had already gotten quite used to being in physical male form but the role.