She calls me her ‘Daddy.’”“So, if I join you tonight?”“You and Wendy are going to hook up. I guarantee.”“And you, Jason?”“It’s e...ery guy’s fantasy. Two beautiful women.”“But you have feelings for her. I can tell.”“Perhaps. But it’s very fucked up. Her ‘Daddy’ thing.”“It could just be her way of dealing with masculinity.”“Maybe. But I think she really wants a Daddy.”“Daddy?” we hear Johnny ask from behind us.“Yes, Sweetie,” Gina says, giving me a conspiratorial look. “We were just saying your. He'd felt the emotion before in himself, but only rarely, and in small measure, but the image of Nezumi's rattata siblings being devoured by a hungry persian made the haunter feel more genuinely guilty than he'd thought possible. Wraith then once more recalled the first time he'd met Nezumi and Umi. When he'd quickly scanned their minds to discover their worst fears. Umi's had involved the cold, but that wasn't surprising. Dragons HATED being cold more than anything else in the world. But. Then his career took off and he had no time. About a year ago, he hired a private investigator to locate her, so here he was.He knew it wasn't the normal place to go to promote his newest album, All I am, but he put the pressure on his manager for him to get it together. He wanted to see her, just one more time, maybe more than one time; he didn't know what exactly was going to happen.When he got the information from the investigator, he skimmed over all of her past and just went to the. Soon to have a word processor but years away from the internet. In other words, I'm old now, but I was young then.It was the summer after my sophomore year. I had spent the early morning at a local swimming pool, where guys from my high school swim team did workouts. Like many of my efforts, I'd suffered that morning without any real plan--I wasn't on the college team, and so it was just a lot of work. But I didn't have much else to do, since my summer job was only a few days a week. That.