. no pockets.”After she gave me a kiss on my lips, I moved on to the important stuff.“We were on upset. Do you have anything else to add?”“Yes..., but when you get to worried, I will explain why I am so upset.”“OK, Third, worried.”“My father won the lottery and is worth about $30 million.”“Shit.”“Yeah.”“No wonder he thinks he can own you.”“And that is why he wasn’t worried if anyone heard any threats, he made in the parking lot.”“His gorillas make him feel safe.”“Now that he has the money, he is. These were things I knew without knowing why. I decided that they were ‘gifts’ given by a grateful universe.In the back of my mind I could see Tara running through Michael’s home, dressed only in a bath towel, trying to get ready for an interview at school. Her wet hair was flying as she ran by and the towel was flipping around, barely exposing her lovely rear end as she flew by. Tara must have known she was flying the flag, so to speak, because she smiled beautifully at Michael as he looked up. “No, this time, it’s got be you conning me,” she said, her blue eyes flashing. “You’ve written 25 stories? No way.”“Not stories,” I grinned. “Books. I’ve written 25 books. And I’ve got 2-3 more in my head that I will do this weekend while Liz is still here.”“I can’t wait to see that wrinkled old bitch,” Althea grinned.“Then you’re going to be sorely disappointed,” I said as we stepped out into the loading zone. A tanned, sexy young girl sat on the hood of a town car that seemed to be waiting. ‘I’m twenty three,’ she said, ‘and I’m old enough to know better. The slimy little pervert actually hit me in the face. I told him he was a creep and I ran. I left all my stuff at the club. I don’t know where I was running but it started raining and it got dark and I was scared. Then you came along. My white knight.’ She gave him a fearful glance from across the seat. ‘You are going to be a white knight, aren’t you?’ ‘I’ve never been described that way before,’ Jake said, ‘but I’m not going to.