The smiling woman unscrewed a bottle of Diet Coke. ‘Yes, Erika does have this thing about her. She rules Alistair’s diary with an iron fist, and w...oe betide anyone who gets on the wrong side of her. But at the same time, she’s fun to be around, and is as sexy as hell.’ As sexy as hell? Was that a phrase that women used to describe one another? ‘Knows her stuff, too,’ the PR Officer told her puzzled colleague, before he could ponder further. She pulled her chin-length red hair onto the top of her. Indeed, realtors regularly warned out-of-town transferees to carefully study the culture of the city and to decide if the very relaxed approach to life is a good match. “Let the buyer beware,” was the realtors’ unspoken mantra.Sue Ellen and Roger Bastion thought that they knew what they and their teenaged children were getting into. At thirty-eight years old, Sue Ellen was hired on as the Chief of Nursing at the Waterbury Hills Hospital, and Roger, forty, was a business development consultant. The company as a whole has a value as stated on their balance sheet, what they call the Book Price, and that’s the value we had to report to the government for Inheritance Tax purposes, but that doesn’t really reflect what the shares are worth. They’re really only worth what someone is willing to pay for them. If no one wants to buy them, then they aren’t worth anything per se, even though they do provide an income.”“So, I could sell these shares? Even though they can’t be sold on the stock. Rachel not only attended the same type of Harry’s parties that I did, but she also starred in the very first one. The realization completely boggled my mind. An infinite number of possibilities competed for space in my overwhelmed brain, and finally I just shook my head quickly in an attempt to clear my head. It was a nice idea, but what happened next just blew my gray matter to smithereens. I heard Harry ask Rachel if she wanted to show me some of her goodness that made her famous. She giggled.