“Fun! They look like they want to impound my car,” she said in an exasperated voice.“They can’t impound it or give you a ticket, if they can�...t see it,” I told her with a smile.“What are you going to do?” Maureen asked, confused.“You need to go with us, Maureen. That way we’ll look like just a normal family passing by. I’ll cast an invisibility spell and throw it at the SUV as we walk by. The police won’t know what happened, and will think someone drove it off,” I told her.We all joined hands. "How is she?"His innocent question brought a fresh flood of tears. Paula clenched her eyelids tightly shut and lowered her head."She's not dead?" Elliott gasped.Paula shook her head."Then what? Is she sick? Tell me, Paula... I've got to know!" Oh, Daddy," she groaned mournfully. "You should have stayed away." I couldn't. For God's sake, sweetie! I couldn't just leave you and Ruth in that evil monster's clutches! I had to find you! And now that I have, I'm going to take you home. Tell me about. I thought to myself “I’ll fix this” I arranged for all our k**s to come over after school for a big St. Patrick’s Day party to cheer Maureen up. Then I arranged for a “sleepover” where my oldest daughter would watch Maureen’s k**s at my house. But I had another reason for arranging this special evening together. I had decided to just risk everything and tell Maureen how I felt about her. We went out to dinner and returned to her large luxury home. She joked “not bad for a girl who grew up in a. ..where is this going?“That could take a while, but I would love to try”I pulled a chair over to the middle of the room and asked her to sit down for me. I had her sit down to make sure she couldn’t be seen from the street. I sat back on my drafting stool and looked more closely at her. She was thin, about 5’-7”, 115 pounds? She had long tan legs that looked damn nice in that skirt. She was wearing a skimpy pink sweater that was kinda baggy, and didn’t show much, although I could see a bit of.