She was fortunate she had raised a good boy who kept to himself, but he was free to do as he wished.It seemed that as soon as he turned seventeen phys...ical changes took over his body. Muscles formed. Not the bulging kind yet, but the long sinuous muscles of young men. His pleasant looks grew into a hint of the handsomeness to come. There was a viral masculinity to him that he didn’t seem to be aware of yet, but I could sense it, and it was disturbing.My eyes followed him when he came out of his. “Hi. My friend Jocelyn Mills was brought here by helicopter.”The woman tapped some keys on her keyboard, “She’s in surgery. Go down that hall; take the elevator to the third floor. That’s the surgical waiting room. There’s a clerk there you can ask for more information.”“Thanks,” I said.We hurried down the hall and into a waiting elevator and rode up to the third floor. I immediately saw Mr. and Mrs. Mills, and rather than go to the clerk at the desk, I walked over to where they were. They both. Back at the house, she went straight to the kitchen, and startedpreparing a meal. She knew that Geoff wouldn't stay late, so she wantedto have the meal ready when he got there. As she worked, she recountedthe touching scene at the church for Grandpa and Maria."He certainly is a changed man from what he was a few weeks ago," Mariasaid. "I remember giving him a roll for sweeping, and he was sograteful, claiming that he was working for his angel. Now he is animportant part of the church. Quite a pro operation, Billy conceded to himself. Smart, fast,well-executed and a clean getaway leaving the people in the target zoneno wiser. He'd have been proud to have taken part in an op like that inthe old days."Gone where?" Don't know. The gang didn't tell me for security reasons." He DID knowwhere the rendezvous point was in fact, Althenius' personal security wasthreadbare, never mind the loose-mouthed losers he had surrounded himselfwith, but Billy's current job was to get Charlie to.