The gap is too big. The math isn't wrong."He stared at me for a long time, saying nothing. Suddenly, it was as if all of the air had been let out of h...m, and he slumped into a seat, dropping his head into his hands. A moment later I could see tremors going through his shoulders, and I was fairly certain he was crying. I sat quietly, waiting him out, waiting for the emotional storm to subside.He looked up a few minutes later, the tracks of tears evident on his cheeks, and asked, in a very small. She suspected... No, she somehow knew that that was part of the magic of the coin. As long as she hadn't started wishing, she could give it away, hell, even throw it away, but she couldn't lose it.The coin was a gold color, about the size of a quarter. Embossed on its surface was a pair of fishes, each chasing the other's tail. Barbara also knew that the coin had a name, the Pisces coin.The coin had a name, a name that she hated. If this damned coin had never come to Jack, he and Esmerelda. We had spent the night together despite the fact that she wasn't my girlfriend. It was only my second night as a free man since me and my (now ex) girlfriend had broken up. She gets up and looks back at me with a look of lust and content before heading into the bathroom to fix her hair. I jump out of bed and fix the sheet that had torn loose from the mattress earlier that morning, then unplug the small extension cord from an unused lamp. I quickly bundle the cord up and stuff it between the. “Oh, that? We own this motherfucking hall, my love! Remember, this is one wealthy family, mon amour. We pool our fortunes to make them even larger, and this is all controlled ultimately by the head of the family. Legally, the family trust owns it all, he heads it, and we as individuals are technically broke. Nevertheless, he always provides each of us with a generous payment from the family trust, which is what you will do in time. Henri is stepping down as head of the family trust at the end.