The front door of his own house opened and Ken, wearing an apron, looked delighted to see them.Bob made his way over to the door."Good holiday, Bob? D...d you fuck Misha lots?"Bob grunted as he passed him and continued through the front door. "Not as much as usual, with her in her condition." He nodded to the backseat of the taxi. "You keep this old place clean?" Yes, sir!" Ken said, as he looked over to the taxi.A heavily pregnant Misha paid off the driver that had lifted the two suitcases from. A powerful motivation for Dale was the fact that he had grown very tired of having others try to govern his existence and make his choices; now that he had the power to change things in his favor he intended to do so. He was very aware that sooner or later someone might come along who wasn't swayed much by the alpha male thing and while he had the power and technology of the Hyranthi exercising it to any significant degree in someplace as observed and controlled as the United States would. ”Sooky crossed the street to talk with the man. He was well dressed and respectable looking. Two other men, dressed in leather jackets but wearing ties sat in the back.“Ma’am, I wouldn’t normally do this, since I don’t know you. But, maybe, we can do you a favor? Hop in. We’ll turn around and drive you to the mall. It isn’t more than 5 minutes out of our way.”Sooky cautiously replied, “I don’t know. You’re strangers. I shouldn’t ride with strangers. Maybe I should just walk.” Looking down the. "I hoped I'd be able to catch up with Abbie while I'm here, just to say, 'Hi' and see how she's going." Hmm," - a shadow passed over Mum's face, "I haven't seen Abbie for months and hardly spoken to her on the phone. You knew she'd gone off to Melbourne with that bastard Eric, didn't you?" Yeah," I replied, "and I know she lost the baby, and then broke up with Eric, but I thought she'd come back home?" No, honey, she cut herself off from me and seemed to just disappear -- look, if you've got a.