It was the same goddamn voice.No. No. I wasn't buying it. This was bullshit. I was being jerked around, whether by God or Destiny or Fate or Justice o... whatever higher power one wished to invoke. This was the same bitch who'd somehow sent me back in time. The same one! I didn't know what she was trying to pull, but I would have none of it.I made a decision. She wasn't getting into our band, period. I would stop at nothing, even if it put me at odds with my three friends. I was going balls to. The scene down the shore will always remain vividly in my mind. The sun shone brightly the entire weekend. Newly washed cars lined the streets double parked on some blocks. Young adults, perhaps a bit too loud from youth and beer, roamed the boardwalk in packs with a certain bravado. Most were smiling and laughing as they walked hand in hand or with their girlfriends on their arm. The guys exhibited a well-rehearsed swagger as they displayed their girlfriends proudly for all to see. I could. They check out the kids bodies, and then compare their faces to any adults in the area. If I see a guy look at a kid and then he sees his mother, he does a lot of comparing of the two faces to see if they be related. If they related, he move on, but by then, I know who he is.”Joey had taken a huge bite of his sandwich and said with his mouth full “Then there’s that devil woman.”Tricia frowned. “Devil woman? Who’s that?”Joey shrugged.“I seen the Devil Woman couple times,” said Gus “She be. And then she fell in love. She was suddenly aware of being alone at the airport, talking to strangers sitting next to her on long flights across oceans, and sitting alone in the hotel bar. Tessa was never available at the same time, her job was not as flexible in travel and vacation, but Lixxii was more addicted to travel than she was to Tess….so she sat in this hotel lobby bar, in London…alone again wondering what Tess was doing. Tess, of course, had a surprise for Lixxii. Knowing her travel.