It was my pride that was hurt baby, you did not do anything wrong.’ ‘Yes I did, and I should have known better. I am sorry Uncle Even. Why are you...in Alaska?’ ‘Would you believe I wanted to learn how to ice fish?’ ‘Director Meil said you would not know one end of a fishing pole from the other. When are you coming home?’ ‘There is an airplane waiting for me to get off the phone with you to take me back to Barrow. I will make arrangements from there to Fairbanks, and then the fastest way home.’. .. the more guys you have, the less you're going to think about Luke."I guess I made a face or something."Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to bring him up." No, it's fine. I'm getting over him. I have to." I hate to say this again, but I was really wondering..." What?" When are you actually going to talk to him? Or at least listen to what he has to say?" I don't know ... but not right now."She nodded.Then her phone started ringing."Call from ... Andrew." He's with Luke," she said, hanging up. "And he. Jessica you are my hero.”“Now stop.”“No, I mean it. Early on, sometimes I’d forget how bad it had been for you, losing your parents and then Jacob, but you wouldn’t let it get you down – you just kept going, taking Jacob’s legacy and making it better. Some people would have just taken the money and run, but not you. I never met Jacob, but I feel I know him because of you. I know he was proud of you when he was living, but I can imagine him up in heaven smiling and thinking he has the greatest. The sunlight sifts through the mesh of the curtains, and falls on our faces. I glance briefly at the divine face in front of me – Stella, her beautiful alabaster skin glowing in the sunlight, her round cheekbones, and the perpetual pink of her cheeks. I might as well have been the luckiest man on Earth in the good ol’ days. But then the events of last night play in my mind, and I taste acid in my mouth. Before I could get distracted with the shit my life is, I hurl these thoughts away. There’s.