He not only had to care for himself since he was in diapers, he was responsible for keeping her functional. The stress exacerbated his father’s alco...olism, and he largely emotionally withdrew from his life. To hide his own shame, he had to cover for them both by lying about his home life. Why you think he no have a single childhood friend?”Toni’s mouth dropped open. “You won’t believe this, but I’m getting a word for word translation from Trillan.”“Geez!” Phil exclaimed, holding his hands up. When I saw her coming down still wearing her house clothes I was angry. Our booking at the restaurant I had chosen was in thirty minutes and she hadn’t even started getting ready yet. She took no notice of my ranting and instead hugged me and said she preferred staying home and spending some quality time with me watching a movie. How could I say no to my little girl who I hadn’t seen since the Christmas holidays? She told me to go change back into something more comfortable and order a pizza. Laura's plan had worked for the most part. Both of their mothers had been shocked when they saw Elena's injured hand, but it had certainly distracted them from her earlier pool mishap, and the stupid excuse of accidently slamming it in her bedroom door had actually seemed to give them faith that she was all right. Parents could be so weird sometimes.Finding Gavin's address had been a bit more difficult, simply because online property pictures tended to focus on the insides of houses, not their. Ann threw the closet door open and stood before me, naked, her body blocking the view that Mattie would otherwise have had of me crouching among the shoes and boxes. She smiled down at me and winked, then ran her tongue over her lips and flashed me a look of pure lust. My dick became hard, of course, which made me very uncomfortable. She smiled again, as if that was her little prank on me.She drew out a knee-length T-shirt, black with a white cat face on it, and closed the door (not quite all.