I shook my head; I was almost a normal human now. How in the hell, was I expected to survive with almost no power?Then the real kick in the balls happ...ned, every close friend or otherwise, left me high and dry. Shaking my head, I was very close to leaving the magick realm for good.With all that happened, there was almost nothing to hold me here, almost. I then thought of my mother alone with no one to help her. No, I couldn’t do that, I would take everything they threw at me for her.In the. His name was Matt and he worked in the PR department of the local hospital. He was good to her and to Lily. It was hard for him to be anything to Jake as she and his big sister doted on him so but Matt tried. The only problem she had was how secretive he was about his work. There wasn’t a day that went by that he wasn’t taking hushed phone calls. They sometimes came in the dead of night and he would speak in whispers in the hallway. When she questioned him, he just laughed and told her it was. She was still angry and she was still frustrated. She couldn't think of anything else she could have done to make her intent more obvious to him. He just didn't respond. She thought about the rigid hardness she had felt beneath his pants and quivered. He was aroused, she didn't doubt that. But why didn't he try to seduce her? Why?A knock came from the door. Cari looked up, unsure that she had heard the rap. It came again. Brushing back her long blonde hair, she stood and walked to the door,. Her breath was coming in short gasps. The morphine drip wasn’t enough any longer. She was hurting badly, but fighting hard to stay alive for just another minute to be with me and her two babies. But the suffering ... oh my God, how she was suffering.I got up from the straight-backed chair the hospital allowed next to her bed and leaned over my wife of only a very few years. I kissed her lips. I didn’t think she was still enough with us to know what I did, but maybe ... Her breathing evened out.