We soon turn up the path and arrive at Tara's. I knock but get no immediate answer. I try the door, but it's locked. "I hope somebody's home," I tell ...ydia. I get out my phone and call Melissa.After several rings, a drowsy Melissa says, "Oh hi, Mary. Sorry, we were napping." No worries, Melissa, we're just dropping by unannounced. I hope that's okay." Where are you?" she mumbles, still not fully awake."At your front door." Oh. Oh. Okay, give me a sec."After a minute, Melissa opens the door in a. After about ten yards I heard another wailin’ cry. ‘Wait, don’t go.’ I took that as meaning she didn’t want me to go after all, so I turned around and started back. She had jumped out of the pool and was standing behind a bush struggling to pull her jeans up over her wet legs. Hell, even I knew that was hard to do. ‘No, damn you, go away but leave my horse behind. Now turn around.’ Okay, I could take a hint. I did have some pride, so I thought I should make a point. ‘Now ma’am, I did go to. There's something I need to say. You know how Stan likes to hypnotize people. Well, I think he finally went too far." A pause, "I think he..."Tiffany looked to me. I couldn't say anything, so I just signaled for her to continue. But Val interrupted."He what? He forced you to seduce my boyfriend in the dark room," asked Val."Not exactly; a few weeks ago he had us..." She looked down. "He forced us to have sex. I think Will may be the father of my baby. He even made us, or at least me forget. “And you’ve already heard all this, so you aren’t surprised?”“Kind of,” She admitted, not looking at me.“I hope you’re not disappointed, or feel like I led you on last night.”Then her eyes were on mine, and her little smile grew.“You did nothing wrong last night,” she shook her head slowly. “I was a little disappointed in myself, but you didn’t do anything wrong.”“OK?” I said with a shrug. “Why were you disappointed?”“I had things planned out, and you actually showed up, and I could hardly.