It was two years between the last chapter and the final chapters. I had health issues and a lot of life changes. I tried to keep the flow the same, but it may present differently. Since I'm editing it all several years later I am trying to make it seamless, we shall see.

Again, I don't own the characters Janet Evanovich's brilliant brain came up with. I have used them, abused them, rearranged them, dosed them with my own brand of creativity and unleashed some of my own creations just to make things interesting.

I don't make a dime. Nobody does.

When everyone arrived at the morning meeting and found Ranger and I in swimsuits and shorts and tee shirts, they were surprised. When he told them we had the day off, they about passed out and ran to change clothes so we could head to Blizzard Beach in mass and play in the water park.

While most people headed for Summit Plummet which is 120 feet in the air on a platform at the top of Mount Gushmore, I headed for the lazy river or Cross Country Creek. Padma thought even that might be too much for her and headed for Tike's peak to watch babies and just laze about. I grabbed an inner tube and relaxed and let the movement of the water carry me around the park for 3000 feet. Every now and then I'd glance up at Summit Plummet and wonder if my husband survived the 60 mile an hour ascent down the 350 foot water slide. I figured I'd know at the end of the day.

Brian joined me in the water first.

"Why are we really taking the day off," he asked as we floated along.

"Because Jack Margolis told us to take a break and get a fresh perspective and because my Daddy agreed with him," I grinned.

He smiled, "well, if your Dad thinks we should take a break, I have to agree then."

"Brian…can I run a hypothetical situation by you," I asked.

"Sure," he agreed.

"Let's say that you're in love with a girl and she's not in love with you."

"Go on Steph…twist the knife a little to the left," he grinned.

"Ha," I rolled my eyes. "But…it only works if you're a girl."

"The knife twist?"

"No," I laughed, "the hypothesis."

"Okay, I'm a girl and I'm in love with a guy who's not in love with me."

"Right and both of you are psychotic. What are the odds you'd both be nuts?"

"Probably pretty good," he said seriously. "That's why all these couples end up killing together."

"Oh right…good point," I nodded. "Okay…so your psychotic boyfriend has an obsession…a fixation on someone you know and work with, how do you think your jealousy would manifest itself?"

"What do you mean?"

"Would you kill her right away or would you kill him, what would you do?"

"I'm not psychotic so I'm going to have to go by what I've read," he said thoughtfully. "I wouldn't go after either of them immediately. But in my delusional mind, she would be the bad guy and not the boyfriend. She's in the way of my happiness and he's who provides it. I would do something to her, but first I'd probably try to scare her off somehow."

"So…maybe she got threatening letters or messages or something from the doer while the guy was on this rape campaign," I frowned.

"That's an interesting theory you've got there sweetheart," he said quietly.

"Yea well, a theory accompanied by a tingle or two," I sighed. "I just can't narrow the tingle to a specific girl."

"That sucks," he shook his head.

"What do you think the odds are that she'll go after Jake to sort of 'finish the story'?"

"Well, that all depends on whether she thinks Jake was in her way," he said thoughtfully.

"Or if Jake is her obsession," I sighed.

"Ouch…that could be a real problem."

"Yea like maybe the doer and the rapist each have obsessions of their own and they work together to sort of…take care of shit."

"You have a twisted mind Stephanie Manoso," he shook his head.

Ranger and Kate joined them in the water. "Making time with my woman Goodman?"

"Are you kidding," Brian shook his head. "Inside her head is some scary shit man."

"Tell me something I don't know," Ranger laughed and kissed my head.

Kate lay back on her inner tube, "Steph…have you thought about the doer being a chick?"

"Yep," I nodded.

"Shit…they both have sick brains," Brian shook his head.

Kate and I laughed.

"It's the evidence," Kate shook her head with a smile. "The evidence suggests a woman or a smallish man. I mean hold your hand up," she said and put hers up palm up.

Brian put his much larger hand to hers.

"See," she said. "That's kind of the point. The rapist had hands like yours. The murderer had hands like mine."

"You didn't do it, did you," he raised a brow with twitching lips.

"Ass," she laughed and shoved his inner tube away from her.

"Do you think it could be Amanda or Joanna," Ranger asked me.

"I think it's possible," I nodded. "Amanda clearly had a fixation on Jake. She wanted to have sex with him and when he couldn't or didn't she could have become enraged and it fermented until she murdered Sandy. I think it's possible."

"That's actually a very good theory," Brian said. "Add to that, Amanda doesn't have an alibi for the murder."

"Really," Ranger said with a frown. "Maybe we better take a closer look at her. What do you think Babe?"

"I think it's a fine idea," I agreed.

"Is anybody hungry yet," Kate groaned as her stomach growled.

"Starving," I admitted.

"Let's get out of the water and grab a bite to eat."

We went to Lottawatta Lodge and ordered lunch at the counter. Brian and I ordered the cheeseburger and fries, Ranger ordered a chicken wrap with chips and Kate ordered a turkey sandwich with chips. They had water. I had lemonade and Brian had a coke which I coveted but couldn't have because I'd had coffee that morning.

"Are you sure you two are compatible," Kate asked halfway through lunch. "She and Brian eat the same crap."

Ranger laughed, "Opposites attract."

"A cheeseburger is not crap madam," Brian said haughtily. "It's just plain good eats."

She shook her head and smiled.

"I used to be worse," I admitted. "I actually eat healthy a lot of the time now."

"I never knew her when she subsisted on peanut butter and olive sandwiches," Brian told Kate, "but I've heard the horror stories."

Kate shivered, "that's disgusting."

I laughed.

Ranger grinned, "I thought she'd get even worse cravings when we found out she was pregnant, but it turns out that she just craves a little more junk food than she'd been craving. She's not bad."

"You know, I'm right here," I reminded him.

"I know you are Babe," he smiled and bent to kiss my head.

"Did you guys all do Summit Plummet," I asked.

"Yep," Kate nodded. "I want to do the downhill double dipper after my lunch settles. It's a 230 foot racing slide. You go up to 25 miles an hour."

"That's sissy stuff after Summit Plummet," Brian shook his head.

"No kidding," Ranger shook his head.

I sighed.

"I'm sorry honey," Ranger said and kissed my head. "It sucks to be pregnant at Disney, doesn't it?"

"No," I sighed. "It would be more fun if I wasn't, but I don't regret it."

"Hey Brian…later today when you've got time, could you come by our suite," Ranger asked. "I need to pick your brains about a personal matter. How's your family law?"

"I'm good," he nodded. "Sure, I'll stop by." He raised a brow at me and I smiled and shook my head.

"Thanks," he nodded.

They headed for the more risky rides and I headed back to the lazy river. I'll be honest with you, I get enough thrills in my regular life. I'm not that big of an adrenalin junkie. I'm completely fine with the lazy river. The only thing that would make it better…if I could get on a raft and nap while I rode. Yep, that's what I'm talking about.

Eventually they became water logged and we all headed back to the resort to put on the aloe and whine about our sunburns. Okay, that's just me really. The upside to being sunburned, Ranger had his hands all over me while he applied the aloe. The bad part? Nothing really since Ranger had his hands all over me.

Ranger went out and picked up dinner at the Contempo Café for us. He had the veggie bake and I had an open-faced roast beef sandwich. I even forgave him for eating the veggie bake when I saw he'd brought me several chocolate croissants for dessert. I've seriously got to learn how to make these suckers.

Brian showed up at about eight and we all sat down in the living room.

"What's up," he asked.

"It's my daughter," Ranger said and shifted uncomfortably.

"Julie," he nodded.

"Right," he sighed. "As you know Rachel's husband Craig adopted her when she was a toddler. They've been gracious about letting me see her and be part of her life in the last several years."

"Right," he nodded.

"My ex-wife called me last night and told me that she and Craig are filing for divorce and he doesn't want to pay child support for my daughter."

Brian sighed. "He wants to overturn the adoption."

"Right," Ranger nodded. "It's been eight years. Won't that be difficult?"

"Not necessarily," Brian said seriously. "If we can prove that it's in Julie's best interest to make a clean break of her relationship with Craig, it may go faster."

"He doesn't want anything to do with her. He's not sure he wants his own kids."

"Shit, that's tough," Brian sighed.

"She's going to come and live with Stephanie and I after this trip. It may be a permanent thing. I'll continue to support Rachel just as I always have as though she has Julie, but she'll be with us. I just want to protect her by giving her my name."

He nodded. "I'll get right on it. Can you two handle that with a baby on the way?"

I smiled, "she's family. Julie's a good kid and even if she wasn't, we'd still want her with us. We can keep her safe and make sure that she feels loved."

"That's the most important thing," Brian nodded. "You know, let me make a phone call." He got up and took his cell phone out and went out onto the balcony to place a call.

"You know…I'm lucky to have found you," Ranger said quietly.

"I feel like the lucky one. I get the love of my life and a daughter. That's pretty damn cool."

He smiled and leaned over to kiss my head.

Brian came back inside a few minutes later smiling. "I have good news. The Miami office is drafting the reversal. They're telling me that as long as all three of you sign and appear in court for the hearing, the adoption will be reversed and she'll be issued a new…or rather original birth certificate in the name of Manoso. I'll work on drafting new papers for Rachel's support as well. Lester is going to send me the current agreement. She has agreed that you'll take Julie?"

"She thinks it's for the best at this time."

"How does Julie feel?"

"She's excited," I said with a small sigh, "but I don't think she realizes it's permanent yet."

"Don't worry, it will work out," Brian said and put his hand on Ranger's shoulder in reassurance. "You'll be fine."

"I think we'll have her see Addison anyway, just to be on the safe side," Ranger said with a smile.

"Good idea," Brian nodded. "Maybe we should get him on retainer."

"Maybe," he laughed.

"I'll see you guys in the morning for the meeting."

"Yea," Ranger nodded and got up to walk him to the door. He returned and dropped beside me and sighed.

"Honey…it's going to be fine."

"I've never had custody of her before."

"You're not running black ops anymore Ric. We have a home. We're married and we're having a baby. We're stable. Your business is stable. We'll figure out how to handle Julie. It's going to be fine."

"You sound so sure," he said with a smile.

"I am sure,' I nodded. "She's a good kid. We aren't going to repeat anything we did the last time she was here including and especially you getting shot by Scrog. Things are going to be fine."

He tugged me into his arms and hugged me. "You know…the smartest thing I ever did was marry you."

"And don't you forget it," I smiled and kissed his neck. "Don't you forget it."