" I grinned, "By the way, I've got to go out this morning." Oh, is that so." she said sarcastically "And where would you be going young man?" I've got... some films I want developed," I grinned, "I'm only going to the shopping mall."Sandra knew the mall I was referring to, it was about two miles from the house and I usually went to the SpeediPrint shop there to get my pictures developed, what she didn't know was the reason I used that particular shop. It was because the technician there was a lazy. His father’s brother had been a United States Senator from Texas. The only good news – from my point of view – was that powerful people, and powerful families, also tend to pick up powerful enemies. Such as the judge who set my bail at only $500. Of course it didn’t hurt that I was a well-respected local businessman, and member of most of the clubs in the town and county. And it probably helped that I was a disabled veteran and had received a Silver Star and Purple Heart while serving in Iraq.. I wished him well, and wondered how his little sister Drindy is doing, if she's still experimenting with her hair colors, that she's not getting left in the dust of his pursuit of glory. I hoped wherever she was they had a good NiS Program and that she was taking advantage of it.I'd gained a new perspective on my brother's seemingly unsympathetic reaction to my diving accident. Painful as it had been, physically and romantically, given Greg's challenges I was lucky it had happened.I wouldn't. .. no, first lock your door-”“Our door doesn’t have a lock...” Ophelia said.“It will by tomorrow evening. It will also be a new, reinforced door. Lock it, call the police, and do not set foot outside of your room until they arrive and clear the house.”“Are we expecting intruders?” Ophelia replied.“No more than usual – there are valuables here, therefore someone might want to take them.”“I thought you were in San Francisco,” Angie said.“I was, and I will be ... Ophelia, I seem to remember your.