“Something amusing?” Stan asked.“The theme to The Godfather. I just find it amusing.”“So what can you tell me?”“What do you want to know...?”“I suppose we’ll start with how the computer network works, how your software works, and how you do the kind of, I guess you’d call it forensics if it was fingerprints, so use that word.”I spent the next hour explaining as much as I could about general concepts, about how our software worked, about how Novell worked, and how we conducted our search for. . easy.She had me at a very young age and I was pulled around with her from system to system. I knew emperors and kings, princes and presidents. My teachers have been ... different than most. One was the best thief known, of course he was retired ... sort of. There have been professors and assassins, special operation soldiers and spies.I even had a queen teach me to dance and a concert master teach me to play music. What I did not have was a real mother. She was really not there and most of my. “Because of Dan. Lynn has always carried a torch for him.” She looked at me for some sort of negative reaction.“We are way beyond that, don’t you think?” I responded.“Ok…if you are alright with that, just keep your eyes open.” She cautioned.The next eleven months passed without incidents and as Lynn and I approached our coming nuptials we each took a portion of the planning and scheduling that kept us apart more often.So when she did not show up a couple of weeks before the wedding, at a. " Paris Waterman. How do you do?"His husky voice caused a tingle to ripple through her. Nadia blinked twice. He looked remarkably like Sean Connery following the James Bond series. He was trim, partially bald, with a full, dark beard that made his tuxedo look perfect on him. His thick eyebrows rose quizzically as he spoke and his eyes... seemed to penetrate right to her soul."Very well thank you," she managed and was saved as Marianne closed in upon her and engaged her in trivial.