"A lot has changed in the last few years. I am glad you like the house."

"It is wonderful. It was the house I always dreamt of. But that's not the point, what happened to you?"

"I have changed."

"Yes you have," she said and a tear ran down her cheek. "You aren't the child I gave birth do all those years ago. Tell me."

"If I told you, you wouldn't believe me." I said but she just looked at me and I folded. "It's a long story. I can't tell you everything because it involves national security."

She smiled when she heard that. I told her a heavily edited...