Once the paperwork had been drawn up by the lawyer who had made similar, though rather less elaborate contracts for Jerry’s other various dealings, on the afternoon that the three of them finally got together at the graying older man’s office to sign everything and have the documents notarized, the sly Samantha apparently decided it was time to sweeten the deal further. While Tom climbed into their car and from the steering wheel made a brief wave from the wrist upward to Jerry, who nodded back genially and began heading over to his own vehicle, Samantha paused at her open door as if by afterthought and made a show of pantomiming surprise by placing a pair of fingertips to the round O of her lips. She straightened again with a theatric little toss of her heavy blonde mane, and called out w
