" The maids curtsied and left me alone with the four witches. Three of them sat on a nearby comfy leather sofa and Mrs. Moore and Mistress Judy held h...nds. Madam Rita, hands on her hips, stood right in front of me and began to speak. Her voice, which seemed so harsh before, now sounded soothing. "Well Nancy, a difficult little predicament you've left us with. Oh don't blubber girl, you know you brought this all on yourself with your perverted ways. Mistress Moore has told me all about you. She. It was well past timefor the k**s to be in bed but at least it was Friday night and he didn’thave work in the morning.He pulled up to the driveway, not surprised to see all the lights wereoff except for the one on the porch. He let himself in quietly; wearilykicking off his shoes he poked his head into his daughter’s room,slightly baffled that the bed was empty. With his mind consumed withthoughts of a shower he headed up the hallway, pausing when he noticedthe rose petals s**ttered on the. Running a hand over his face he looked around and noticed that her things were gone. The bed felt strange, too big somehow, even with his large frame in it. He’d taken her virginity and now she wasn’t even here to talk about it. Didn’t women want to talk about these sorts of things? He was unsure about how to proceed with her. Lucas wasn’t a stranger to women but he’d learned early to have his dalliances elsewhere. He lived in a small community and broken hearts were not pleasant when everyone. “But we all missed Steve.”“I missed everyone,” I said. “But I needed the time away from everything to completely recharge my batteries and learn some important things about myself and the world.”“I don’t want to take too much time, but could you boil it down to a few points for me?”“Well, the first point is that I was burned out and didn’t know it. The second point is related - I need time away from everything to decouple and decompress. The third point is that I need to spend time with a.