And sweetie, do remember, you are your brother's keeper and I'm proud of the both of you. You for being the loving understanding husband and him for m...king you a father." She said as she hugged me goodbye. I didn't reply, because I knew mother was being sincere and meant well, but I'd come to the conclusion that there was just no way of getting around the humiliated in my situation. --- Nick and I and the family were assembled in the hos- pital waiting room when the. Nobody can proveit, but the rumor is that he runs the four cartels somehow -Meraggio for counterfeiting and fraud, Luccese for drugs, Nkembefor slavery and gunrunning and Mendoza for slavery and gambling.Some of the real freaks in Washington still think that al-Hassrahas some kind of 'master plan' and he's using the cartels tobring it about."Bream nodded. "And the Federal government wants to know whatthat plan is. And we want al-Hassra killed and all his cartelheads either dead or in prison.". “A vehicle will be here to pick you up in a few minutes,” I was told on returning to the checkpoint.This turn of events did not fit in with what I had planned to do while here, but I would need to deal with it. It was imperative that I get Gweneth away from these people. Following that, I would see just how important this mission of theirs was, and if it really required my special talents to complete it. I would definitely not be coerced into doing something for them under the threat of harm to. The mass of wavy dark hair gave the, very accurate, impression it had just been slept in, but still flowed from the roughly-centre parting at her crown down to her shoulders in a cascade of midnight, star-spangled at the peripheries but dark at its centre like one of the great nebulae; the vast clouds of star-stuff where new stars arise from the ashes of the old.How appropriate; “Where the stars are still young and the light of morning lingers,” ran through my mind, (now where had I read.