.no!We sipped tea, munched on toast and Julietta started to speak and thenlaughed. "I can't call you Robert, what name would you like to use?" I don't...know, anything, but definitely not Roberta!" We both laughed, asRoberta was of course the name of Robert's ? my ? second wife."I guess not," Julietta laughed. "So, which name?" I don't know. You choose," I said with a sad smile. What does it matter?She thought for a moment. "Pia, you look like a Pia."Pia was Julietta's mother's name. "Then Pia it. I grabbed the dude with one hand, and squeezing with all my might, pulled back my right arm, full length, and slammed into the side of his head as hard as I could. The other two jumped up at once, but I just kept slamming the dude in the side of his head, busting his eye, cheekbone, and nose. I continued the pounding as now the other two were attempting to pull me off. I let go, and swinging around, laid into the second dude, delivering the same punishment. B l o o d was flying everywhere, and. [email protected] Chapter 3By Anastasia ToyThree weeks later I was in a small conference room at the University'smedical center, sitting uncomfortably in a chair and facing a longtable, behind which sat a row of five people, like a panel. Irecognized Lillianna, who had taken the center position, and Antonio,who sat to her left, but the rest were strange to me. They had saidnothing to me when I had first been led in by one of Antonio'sassistants, but only shuffled papers and talked. All too often, when something good happened, she didn't feel very good about it.It had been with such a flush of victory that she'd come to Los Angeles to work for the Defenders. They'd actually stopped construction on Old Brook, and it had never opened! Now, that had been worth what she'd had to do to those police officers! McMullen had been right, after all, they'd been spies, but she'd converted them long enough that it had counted. In fact, there hadn't been a new nuclear plant opened since.