Of course, you mostly had to be rich or powerful to get away with it!”“I don’t recall ever having read about women having multiple husbands!”I... smirked, “The men would kill each other or chase each other away. Think lions! But if you think about it, purely from a biological standpoint, one man can impregnate many women, but a woman can only be pregnant from one man at a time!”“So like they do with the best race horses, then?” she asked with a silly smile.“Yes, but those are specially selected. .. that probably means mercs.”“No probably at all...” Ted growled, “AIS has their own internal crew for the usual domestic black bag jobs. Quiet intrusion affairs usually, but they’ve got a few military contractors on retainer too and keep them busy overseas handling the more ‘unfriendly’ corporate takeovers. Not so often used domestically, here ... but our site here is remote and relatively close to the Mexican border, so that offers them some extra deniability. The political situation is. * The ringing of the telephone in the lounge sounded loud as it drew the attention of John’s cousin and Alexei Romanich. In the centre of the room the shot and injured person lay unconscious, and the pain hazed Katrina was unable to notice the strident noise that split the electric silence in the room. ‘Don’t fucking answer it.’ Screamed Alexei suddenly, as if the phone was alive, the gun in his shaking hand waving wildly between John’s cousin and the others, none of which were in any state. And telling the cops her boyfriend was driving my car, that hurts also. I wonder now how long that had been going on, and if she was ever going to tell me if not for the accident.”I was now holding Jacki and crying on her shoulder. “We had been together for over four years, and in less than a year apart it all ends. I was going to go home next year, and we would get married. Now, fuck. Now I guess that is not gonna happen.”“No honey, it’s not gonna happen. Tell me, do you think you can patch.