Solana
Solana’s been seeing a boy. That’s great. It’s normal. It’s what 18 year old girls should be doing. Given her problems, it’s amazing and something to celebrate. Then Ray calls me and tells me the kids she’s dating is Special Agent Wang’s son. Small world. Ray was a little freaked out, and gave her the talk (again) about not talking about the family business in front of this boy. She’s pathologically incapable of lying, which is actually one of her endearing qualities, but it can be a liability to the family business. Telling her not to date the boy wouldn’t work, it would probably just confuse her, and Ray knows her well enough not to take that tack.
After I hung up with Ray, I called Wang. I asked him what his son’s intentions were. When he asked what the hell I was talking about, I told him his son was dating my future step-niece. I tried to sound serious, like a concerned parent, and then I cracked up. He told me I was a jerk and hung up on me. This will hopefully accomplish what I want. He’ll forbid his son from seeing Solana because the girl’s part of a crime family, and the boy will either obey his father or he’ll rebel and clam up around his dad. He may even try to co-opt his son as an informant, while will likely result in the kid being torn and siding with the cute girl. In any case, it shuts down the possibility of the kid passing along anything Solana might accidentally let slip. Unless of course the boy isn’t governed by hormones and a deep resentment of his parents like other kids his age. Given the fact that his dad’s an FBI Special Agent and he’s in community college, I’m going to guess he doesn’t have his father’s discipline or intelligence, or he’s got other issues keepiung him out of Harvard. Not sweating this one at the moment.
