), and someone clapped,and I looked around and saw it was my Mama. Mommy had told me she wascoming to take me shopping, but I didn't know it would be ...this early. Mama just waved to Mommy and was in a big hurry to go, because I had todo homework after shopping too and because traffic was starting. But evenI knew I couldn't go shopping in just unders! But when I said that allthe cheerleader girls laughed, and one said, "They aren't unders for you,Jade, because you don't have any overs over them.". " Our information is that this man," he said as he pointed at Werner, "was going to drug you so that he could take compromising pictures of you with this woman." That was my understanding also," Tom said. "I believe he did try to give me a spiked drink." You didn't drink it?" No I poured it into that coffee cup on the table next to the sofa," Tom said."Smart move. I'll be taking that with me then," detective Furgeson said."How did you know what was going on?" Tom asked."I got a call from the. ."Ummm, was that a rhetorical question?" He joked, as all his mates laughed. Aria rolled her eyes, there was no use argueing, it would only start a fight, that her brother was sure to win by tickling her. As Aria passed the beer to her brother, she fell asleep on the couch beside him.When she woke up, she was alone in the lounge room. She went upstairs, only to see that Emyd was in the spare room reading something."hey" she said as he looked up and gave her one of his crinkly smiles."hey, your. It was out of her hands now.This was her last assignment. Oh, she and Daima would continue to worktogether as colleagues, but all of the tasks and goals that the FinanceMinister had outlined for Aliya over a year ago had been accomplished.And the result was this devout Muslim woman before her. She hadconverted a man into a Muslim woman. She had led him slowly andcarefully down the path, and now here he was. Her sister.Paula, now Daima, watched as Aliya reached over to the bundle on the endtable.