She will probably be turning the charm way up now. As far as she knows it was all just a runaway fantasy. She doesn't know it was real and that you we...e really there. That's why we have to talk about this. Now that she's let the fantasy run that far she is going to be seriously after the real thing. So you have to be really careful."I was in shock. For one thing, have you ever tried to keep up with an excited seventh grader speed-talking? As if that wasn't hard enough, how could Allison know. "They said you were going to play with them today!" I said in that sweetvoice. "You promised them you would wear a diaper just like them!"The girl looked at me like she was ready to leap over the desk and poundmy butt, but a moment later her face cracked and she began laughing. "Ilike you kid!"Now free of the banter I looked at the gigantic chair and hoped I stillhad that plastic portable booster seat thing in my bag so I could reachthe keyboard. Thankfully Amanda seemed to have thought about. You’ve saved my ass.’ ‘Remember that the next time I ask for a raise,’ was his grinning reply. With a laugh and a sigh of relief, she closed her cell phone and turned to her new client. ‘Now, Mr. Lazarus let’s discuss my fee. I am going to a great deal of trouble for you, so I’ll be expecting triple my hourly rate.’ ‘Anything,’ Lazarus said quickly. ‘I think not,’ Darcy interjected. Aurora’s spine stiffened at his response, she turned toward him with an irritable twist of her lips. Darcy’s. Why put that kind of money into it?”“Are they in a worse situation than the previous time?”“You mean besides the tax evasion and money laundering? And the six arrests?”“None of which included Edwards.”“True. He had to sell all his shares to DCP in order to get the company recapitalized. Depending on what they paid him, they may be able to make the numbers work on a sale, as they had already extracted enough value from Lone Star to cover their initial investment. So someone, Braun’s kid, for.