I see that you are waking up,” she smiled at us and took a sip of her coffee. “Smells good, doesn’t it?” she asked.“Yes, Ma’am,” Julie w...s the first to answer, and Mandy echoed her sentiments.“Too bad it isn’t for you,” she said without sympathy and reminded us that while under Slut Summer School we would be eating mostly table scraps and that would only be if we were well behaved and completed our chores. “You will learn to take no pleasure in the act of eating. Even the mundane tasks you took. I mean gone, nothing, into thin air in front of their very eyes.’ I felt him grin at the other end of the line. ‘If that’s not worth a visit, I don’t know what is.’ I laughed and shook my head. ‘I guess so. Wolves that vanish into thin air, yet don’t eat meat…you know Tom, if we’re still alive by the end of this trip, I think you should seek help.’ So that Friday, after finishing work early at two o’clock, I packed my bags into my car, rechecked the map directions and drove north on the M40,. She shook her head. “Nah. We were just there three weeks ago,” she said in between bites of bacon.Adam sat down his coffee mug and shrugged. “True. Well, what do you want to do? Any ideas?”Victoria looked directly at him. “I have a few ideas.”His body tensed, and she noticed. He broke eye contact, poured syrup on his French toast, and ate some.“I figured we could just hang out locally. Spend time together and um…”He looked up at her, and she closed her mouth. She knew to tread lightly because. “Make sure you do not tell your mother,” he spoke sternly. She nodded fearfully. Nothing about her father’s previous actions made her think he would ever burn her intentionally and he had not said anything of the sort just now, but she really did believe he was threatening her at that moment. She had no proof and her mother would not believe her but she felt she would be in danger if she did not keep her promise.“Good girl.” He ruffled her hair under her hood. He then kneeled down so they were.