I'm always amazed at the resilience of the people I care about-including me.

First, the bad news. There was nothing from Charlotte and Danilo about the Russian mafia. Mind you, with those two it was possible no news was actually good news, so I just let trust lead the way and hope they would find something we could use to help Femke.

Who, unfortunately, was back to being her crackpot self. Considering I now knew her soul was ...