So will you help me out with Lauren"I had kept eye contact with him and been surprised at how casually he discussed his daughter in the third person w...ile she stood there. I glanced at her and noticed she had placed her arms behind her back and was noticeably quite upset at his words. My response was a bit nervous not sure what exactly he means by punishing her. I admit I was hoping it was corporal punishment, but I wouldn't want to be the one to mention it and then have him think I'm a total. Patrick reached up and with the pad of his thumb wiped away the tears on her cheeks. ‘You look so beautiful…..I’ve dream of you every night…..and you look more beautiful here in real life than my mind could ever conjure up.’ ‘How are you? ‘I’m alright…..how are you?’ Shyly she smiled, ‘Ok…I like your hair longer…..’ And for the next hour they talked, Patrick’s thumb stroking the sensitive skin of the inside of her wrist, their eyes drinking in each other, his eyes sometimes moving down to look. There weren't many trillionaires in the Solar System with the wealth to make their home a space colony large enough to house several million people, although only a minuscule fraction of that number actually lived there. Even Ellis' immense fortune was only just about enough to purchase the outermost level of the Aphrodite space colony at the equidistant point of Venus' orbit.Ellis had inherited the third largest teleporter company in the Solar System and its shares had continued to rise under. Years later, success brings new problems. Not only do I fear my poor mother becoming dependent on opiates, but the NDLEA has been cracking down on fellow doctors that have been a bit too carefree with painkiller 'scripts. And I mean crazy-style. Lawsuits have been popping up like parking tickets in the Loop, and many sawbones have even gotten locked up. Hearing phone calls from patients screaming in excruciating pain makes me sick, but I can't afford the lawyer fees for yet another fling in the.