He’s here. I’d recognise his style anywhere. She threaded her way through the guests with a succession of ‘Sorry’s’ and ‘Excuse me’s’ ...until she reached him. Just when I presumed it was safe to come out of hiding. She leant on the piano and watched his hands as they moved with graceful precision over the keyboard. It was fifteen months since she’d seen Robert, since she was entranced by his slender touch, as the embrace of her breasts began his sweet seduction. The seduction that never happened,. Jamal straightened up; he'd seen her this way before. Even as fearsome as he was, he obeyed the laws of nature that made men back away from potentially dangerous female moods."I'm only saying," and aroused Jamal gently began again, bending down and rubbing her bare right breast slowly with his left hand, "that we only have to wait a little while and the reward will be most exciting and worthwhile." Jamal wanted to be a true player on the political scene. An act of such monstrous consequences. I however, was a full (if junior) member of House Donovan, and I could rally them, get them to the armory, and take back the ship and find out what had happened to my family.Alex told me that it was a bad idea, that by now we were already overdue to arrive at the jumpgate, and they would be sending someone to see why we hadn’t shown up as scheduled. But I didn’t listen to him ... I guess I was too hyped up to do SOMETHING about the situation. But he was right, should I be caught with the. So we decide to resort to breaking it by brute force, and Steve leaves to get something to use as a lever. He returns with a long steel bar and we try to lever one side of the fireplace out.After a few minutes we shift to the other side, and soon there’s the sound of snapping of metal followed by the whole fireplace swinging out on a pivot near the other side. Under the fireplace is a large safe door. I try the various safe keys we have, and we soon have the safe open.Inside the safe are papers.