Tasmine softly spoke up in her shy voice, "Shouldn't we speak with the king first? He was the one who sent us on this journey, and now that there's a ...hange of plans, maybe we should let him know and find out his thoughts on the matter." No," I firmly said. "That will take too long. I won't let Lucas be a prisoner any longer than it takes us to get ther. Atheria is right, we must go to save him, and we must leave now." Very well," Val said. "I shall go with you. If anything, to keep us alive in. It wasn’t a high profile case like OJ, but it was a murder case nonetheless. I sat in the back, in the cut, watching everyone converse, but half my attention was on some poetry I was writing. We were all waiting on the boss-lady herself, Maya Wilkes to arrive. Like normal, Maya was late. I excused it this time since there was a storm on Monday, but with her track record, she would have been late even if there hadn't been one. It was just another normal day at the Law Offices of Maya J. Wilkes.. ‘Come with me.’ *** Joey was absolutely flabbergasted. In the time it took Donovan to clean up and shave, Abner had amassed a veritable army downstairs in the library. Over a dozen, big hulking men had set up shop there, filling it to bursting with computers, papers and more guns than Joey had ever seen. One normal-sized man was tucked away in a corner, speaking into a headpiece and tapping away on a laptop furiously. Everybody stopped and stood when Donovan walked into the room, Joey and Abner. She smiled at us and swallowed.Mom and I went back to the table with Kevin. We got some funny looks from the rest of the table. We all smiled knowingly.The band kept playing and everyone kept dancing. It was a hot night and we were all sweating. The band started a conga. We got in the conga line. I held mom's hips and she put her hands on the man in front of her's ass. The band kept playing.Someone yelled "Skinny dip."We all stripped and jumped into the pool.Mom took the opportunity to get on.