" I'm not sure that she would understand the last part of the message, since I was crying again after I said the word "explain."I'm not sure how long ... sat on Jessica's bed, but I finally dragged myself into the den/office and was surprised to see a piece of paper on my keyboard. I certainly hoped that this would explain what I had found upon arriving home.It was a letter from Sharon.Rob,You are a bastard of the first order. Angela saw you going into the Holiday Inn, room 104, over on the. What was going on? Was this the same personwho'd been shooting venom at this man mere minutes beforehand?Michael, a hand on Denise's sumptuous behind, looked over to his frozenemployee and gave it a little squeeze. She cooed at that, and hechuckled to himself. "I have to say, I'm vastly grateful that youinvited me to your house, Stephen. I've thoroughly enjoyed yourhospitality, and I'm liking the look of the dessert so much that I'mthinking of skipping the main meal."He turned his head and his. "Hi, I'm Tony," I said. She turned in her chair, and I realized it was Allie's mom. Now I realized why Mr. Reed had said to be polite: he knew we had a history. I walked around the table and sat down opposite her."Tony," she acknowledged."Mrs. Schmidt," I said and waited. It was her dime."I talked to Roberta. She said you make these decisions." Robbie was letting me make decisions? That explained the gleam in her eye. I wondered if it was because Allie's mom called her Roberta or other. "Your condition is stable, but puzzling. We found very few good explanations for your light coma, but now that it is over, I suppose we will never understand what caused your brain to shut down so dramatically. There are some on the staff that suggest your mind was protecting you from the deaths of your family, and that makes perfect sense. Others feel that your head injury, though apparently superficial, was more traumatic than we can see on x-rays. That also makes sense. The truth is that we.