" She was making love to Andrew," Scarlet said."You sure could have fooled me," Cat said. She shook her head as if to clear it."She was watching his r...action to everything she did," Scarlet said."You're kidding." Nope." She's got it bad." Got what?" She's in love with Andrew," Cat said.Scarlet frowned and then asked, "Is that a good thing?" I don't know. She could really get hurt if he isn't in love with her," Cat said softly.The next afternoon, Scarlet was seated in the kitchen watching Raven. .”“You say Jason fucking Gloria would be bad.”“Oh yeah, very bad in all probability.”“What about Jason fucking someone who looks and sounds a lot like Gloria?”“Fuck...”“Yeah, someone he can take out all his feelings about Gloria on...”“Shit...”“Good and bad ... of course, that’s just me guessing, but Kari obviously knows the situation, so she’d choose someone who could handle all of his feelings and reactions.”“Oh fuck...”“You don’t approve?”“I had a patient once,” Susan replied, “ strongly. A couple of days later we had the viewing. It was just the two of us saying goodbye. She looked so peaceful. I’d never seen Jacob cry before, but he was so devastated he couldn’t even drive.“Then she was cremated and while we waited a few days to claim her ashes, I helped Jacob with some things like putting her car in storage. Actually I did all of that, including shipping her clothes. He just couldn’t think about giving them away right then, much less trying to sell her car. I even chartered a. I had an ice-cold shower, hollering all the way through, but felt better afterward. I still had a hard on when it was done, but it wasn't so painfully swollen. Weird.I got myself dressed and headed to school, Duotang in hand, to intercept Sheila. I got there just as she was heading across the back field of the school grounds. She was marching along, rather happily in the direction of her home, looking up at the clouds in the bright blue sky and humming to herself, with her books clutched to her.