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children love having them.” She had the cats in their carrier, and trundled it over to me. Due to Jamie’s demands that the cats go everywhere with her in the Embassy, their carrier was now an extra-large luxury deal on wheels with a handle for pulling.
    The cats seemed okay with their Feline Winnebago, probably because they liked traveling in style and with their own band of Poofs along. I wasn’t positive, but it seemed to me that Sugarfoot, Candy, and Kane had Poofs that they considered theirs, just like the rest of us. For all I knew, the dogs had their own Poofs, too. There were certainly enough Poofs in there with the cats to accommodate every Earth pet we had and then some.
    â€œWhere are the rest of the kids?” I asked, as the human kids, Raymond and Rachel Lewis, trotted over, too. These days, we had several other hybrid children at the center—all those who had parents working at the Embassy, on Alpha, or Airborne—and I was used to seeing them and getting daily hugs and kisses.
    â€œPicked up already. You’re a little late, but that’s never a problem. We all like spending extra time with Jamie.”
    Decided not to offer any excuse for why I was late since Denise didn’t seem to care. Besides, getting rid of the Bomb of Badness was a good thing, right?
    Raymond was a serious little boy of six and his sister was a sweet little girl of four. Their father, Kevin, was a gorgeous black guy with bags and bags of charisma. Denise was a gorgeous blonde with her own bags of charisma. Both of them had fantastic smiles with fantastic teeth on top of everything else. They were pretty much the perfect couple, and you couldn’t hate them because they were also incredibly nice.
    Surprising no one, their children were also gorgeous, with fab smiles and their own little bags of charisma. I wasn’t sure if Raymond was too old for Jamie, but I was willing to go for the arranged marriage idea, because in addition to all their other fine qualities, the Lewises were also all smart. Hey, I wanted my daughter to marry well. Sure, after she’d grown up and found herself a career she enjoyed, but it was never too early to plan, right?
    After I got my requisite hugs from the Lewis kids, Raymond gave me a very serious look. “I’m not sure this dinner party is such a good idea.”

CHAPTER 9
    I GAPED AT RAYMOND. “Um, why?”
    â€œDaddy says that he’s concerned about the security.” Raymond was dead serious, and he looked ready to go downstairs and join the other men in the verification of our Embassy’s safety set-up.
    Of course, Kevin was my mother’s right-hand man, meaning he was second in command of the Presidential Terrorism Control Unit, or P.T.C.U. Until I’d run into the gang from Alpha Four, I hadn’t known this government agency existed, nor that my mother was the head of it. The past three years had been full of fun facts like this one.
    Kevin and his family had taken up permanent positions at our Embassy, so Kevin had the “fun” of reporting in to two different bosses and doing two different jobs. He handled it smoothly, because, well, he was Kevin and smooth was his natural state of being. In the Embassy, he was our Defense Attaché. Denise was running the daycare and Embassy School because she was both qualified and didn’t want to be bored every day of her life.
    Denise shook her head and laughed. “One stray comment and
someone
thinks he knows better than his father.”
    â€œIs Kevin worried?”
    She shrugged. “It’s his job to be worried, and to act on those worries. Don’t you worry, though, Kitty. Everything’s under control. And Gladys will be with us, babysitting.”
    â€œOh, good news.” It was. Gladys was the head of all Security operations for Centaurion Division, and that included the Embassy, Pontifex’s residences, Martini Manor, where Jeff’s parents lived,