Nick DelVecchio wasn’t happy that she hadn’t done any parties this fall. As her bodyguard, she usually tipped him ten percent of the night’s fee.... Three thousand dollars was more than she’d ever made from one dance in her entire life. If word got back to him that she turned down a 3,000 party … And what would Houlihan say? “Well, okay. Geez, that’s a lot of guys. They’re all from St. Veronica’s?” “Yeah, a lot of younger guys, freshmen and sophomores.” “Listen—while I’m there, no beer. I mean it.. WE need to talk to you," Regina started in desperation. "Ike has asked me to marry him. You see I'm pregnant. We're pretty sure that its Ike's baby, but it could be Mike's. We just aren't sure. Mike hasn't been around in a while. He bowed out when Ike and I got serious about each other, but I'm not sure if it was soon enough!" Regina finished in tears. Ike pulled her into his arms and consoled her."That's all very nice, Regina. I'm happy for you, but why are you telling me this?" Astrid asked,. Ella hadn’t technically cleared this idea with Jessica, but knew that Jessica wouldn’t mind as long as her property wasn’t damaged.When the table was clear Ella paused for a moment, considering how to proceed. She sipped from her glass of wine, looking back and forth at the two women at her disposal, then over at the expectant face of her husband. Sitting her glass down on the coffee table, she walked over and pulled off Jane’s form-fitting rubber top, then her bottom. When Jane was naked Ella. Everything I had been hearing that spring and summer indicated that something was in the works. There was talk of ‘chatter’, emails and cell phone calls from strange people to even stranger people. Something was going to happen. I asked Clarke what he thought it was, and then asked him about various scenarios straight out of Tom Clancy novels. Two days after the July meeting, the counter-terrorism office for the National Security Adviser was eliminated as being duplicative of efforts at CIA..