I walked to the door and opened it. The boy stood there. Hewas the same age and about the same height as Emily.Dressed in jeans, trainers and Man Utd ...hirt he looked atme, not recognising who I was. His hair was shoulder lengthand looked like it needed washing, as did all his clothes.I invited him in. He followed me to the kitchen. Emilygreeted him.'I see that your step dad is out.' he said. Both Maggie andEmily laughed.'No he's not out, just changed a bit, this is him, we callhim Lucy now.'The. ” She gave a pouty face, then perked up again. “Now, I know I am a spoiled child, I proved that earlier. I will try to be better. Please?”“You realize I am shipping you off for your safety, and your hostess has zero tolerance for such behavior. She might kill you if...”“ ... if I deserve it. Yes, I understand. I will try to be good. I know it will be hard.”“Yes, it will be hard ... I will have to find somebody else to stick my ‘hard’ into,” I said. She grumped at that, she was very expressive. And he’s sweet on Mrs. Cortez. Fascinating. Very intriguing indeed. Well, that settles it. A instead of B, Ms. Bevan. Your parents will be happy about that, won’t they?” Anne continued.“Not if they knew what for. Mrs. Fairfax, you are aware that I’m not allowed to date him, right? I’ve been specifically told who I can and can’t date. And Charles is on the ‘never in a million fucking years’ list, because he isn’t a Christian, you see. Mama’s a preacher and she doesn’t like the idea of her. We arrived at the station's building at two-fifty. Tom was already waiting for us. He saw us drive in and spoke to me through the radio. We parked near him and Sam pulled in beside me.Tom led us in to one of the studios they had for this type of broadcast. I met the general manager of the station and introduced the girls to him. He turned us over to a producer who walked us through the ordeal. Tom was going to read a prepared statement and then there would be a question and answer period. The.