" I started but was interrupted by Esmeralda's raised hand."ANY child is our business," she said in a voice telling me very clearly this was their dom...in. Every woman in the room stared at me to see if I would step over the line. I looked at Michael; his shrug was not much help. I did not care for Esmeralda's tone, but she had the right of it."The Alominos site," I said to Marie."The capital we set aside for the purchase could be used elsewhere," Michael said before she could speak. She looked. We found a place to dock; it wasn't a marina, but it looked more like a place for docking cargo barges. Anyway, there was plenty of open space, so we had no trouble finding a place to park. This was pretty late in the day, so we just took a quick scouting trip of only a couple of blocks from where we were docked before we shut down for the evening and had supper. Where we were looked reasonably safe, but we continued our guard rotation just to be on the safe side.It was damned well that we made. Margie had developed a thing for a friend of Lara’s, an older man she bought rare books from. He looked a lot like Jeremy Irons. When the man turned Margie down, she hadn’t handled it well. She threw a bit of tantrum and accused Lara of interfering. Lara simply told her she was being childish, and Margie could recognize now that was true—in fact in her gut she’d known it at the time—but she could never bring herself to admit it out loud and apologize. She just took off on her own and that was. “What about it?” I groaned back “Well… we can do anything we want and nobody will ever know.” That lifted my spirits a little. I’m lying, that lifted my spirits a lot. Maybe it was because I was sleep deprived but I began laughing maniacally as hundreds of devious thoughts entered my head. With new found energy I was back to typing on my keyboard, typing faster than I had the whole night. Karen watched me curiously as I did something I’d always been tempted to do. I cranked my speakers up to.