”When they were finished with their bath, they dried each other off. Daddy, lifted Trina into his arms carried her to the bed, and laid her in the m...ddle of the bed. He covered her with the sheet then left the room. He returned with a bottle of wine and two goblets. He poured two glasses and hands Trina one. Then he lifted his glass and said, “Here’s to us, my darling. “ Trina clicked her glass with daddy and said, “May we be happy always!” They emptied their glasses, and lay back on the bed.. As private and as secretive as the formidable fortress was – and had been since the 60s – it was also a good neighbor. Men who lived and served the Sunset Citadel also lent their skills and weapons to some of their neighboring communes as security. In return, farming communes shared their bounty and one super-secret compound was exclusively dedicated to making ammo for many guns of the Sunset Citadel.It was there, “The Plant” it was called, that Holly Danvers was drawn as a disillusioned teen. “Berniece, Berniece Milford,” she said.“Oh, okay,” I said. “You finally remembered your name.”“Yes, well, I didn’t really know you, so...” she said. I nodded. “But, I have a question. How do you know my husband?”“We were inside together,” I said, “at Winslow State.”“Marcus is part of a program my husband here manages,” said Flo, joining the word-a-thon.“Program? The AIDS thing?” she said.“Yes,” said Blue Top.“It’s the Grimes Organization. I just manage it,” I said.“My husband asked mister. Seth looked at Ace as a Greed god, a perfect ten, a one-in-a-million beauty. Now, Seth was not too bad looking either. In fact, he was quite tempting himself.Seth had jet black hair that was short clipped and only intruded upon his face when his bangs came to his eyebrows in the front. It ended just above his collar in the back, giving him the look of the All-American boy stereotype. His emerald eyes glistened when looked into and sparkled in the sun and drew in the gaze of any onlooker.