" Yes, separately and together." Tell me about the artist." He gave me two of his paintings. They're in my room." I stood up. "I'll be right back with...them."I retrieved the paintings, leaned one on the mantle over the fireplace and the other on the serving console against the wall.Mother studied the paintings. "He's talented. Has he sold any of his work?" No. He says he doesn't care about money, says he's still learning. He didn't start painting until two years ago. Before that he made a. “It’s okay, you know, this is the 21st Century,” said Alice, she loved winding Charles up.“Not going to happen 21st Century or not. Michael is a great guy and all that, but I don’t fancy blokes.” Charles knew that Alice was winding him up and decided to have some fun of his own at her expense. “Now I would love to get my hands-on Lucy, she has a lovely arse and her tits are perfect.”Alice scowled at him “Carry on talking like that and there will definitely be no more parties.”“Okay, Okay, but. As I went over the report with Lisa, I could see that some rates looked low. I said, "We are going to have to look at the personnel files to determine why some of these rates are what they are." We went over them and did determine that two people were underpaid simply because they needed the work and would work for that rate. I told Lisa that we would talk to Mitch and Melody Monday about those two. We talked some more and then left for lunch.After lunch, we returned ready to meet with the. Alena sat there with a glazed look on her face as their response registered. When she didn't react, Sarah's Clan continued, "Alena, are you okay?"Alena shook her head, then said, "You said, 'yes'!" Of course, we said, yes! Your request to be a part of our clan makes us delightfully ecstatic." With that, they all moved to pull her into the center of a group hug."I was scared to ask. I don't know why, because I was almost certain you guys would say yes, but even with telepathy there is always the.