” She looked around. “Too many thugs,” she concluded. She forgot in her state of mind she already was very drunk.The audience was indeed not rea...ly the cream of the top. Some biker-like man had taken over a corner, and were admiring a beautiful young girl with platinum blond hair sensually dancing around her stage wearing some blue lingerie, stockings, and white high heels. She expertly teased them and collected a lot of dollars. “A pro,” Donna concluded. The men obviously enjoyed the sight,. ‘You mean he was a rake?’ Mrs. Lerner, a woman of considerable beauty and understanding eyes gazed at Vivian for a moment. ‘You had better ask Trentham himself for the full story, my dear. Trentham was anything but the usual rogue.’ Sadness filled Vivian so suddenly, as it occurred to her that Derek might never open up to her. ‘Don’t look so glum, my dear. Everything will work out.’ Mrs. Lerner squeezed her hand comfortingly and smiled. ‘Accept the invitations. Have Trentham escort you, and. It might have just been a guess at what it looked like, but it was of a giant hermit crab. However, hermit crabs don’t create their own shells. Snails do. Hermit crabs just take them over. So, either we’re actually inside a snail, or if this really is a hermit crab, then that means it probably got this shell from a snail, and if there are these gargantuan crabs and snails living within the earth, what else is down there?”“And how does that help us?”“It’ll take your mind of things. We’ll be. Defiantly, as she was with her Mother she responded, “Isn’t that between him and me?”“Listen, I don’t know you, I don’t know what your deal is, or what your trying to get from my Father, but I don’t like it, and I want you to stay away from him.” It was the finger pointing. She pointed her finger at her. Her Mother pointed her finger at her. She hated it.She crossed her arms before continuing, “I think HE can decide what he wants to do and who he wants to be with.”Ah, now the silence, her.