I took her into the lounge and sat her down with a glass of wine then fetched some tissues to clean up her face. I sat next to her with my arms around...her. Through her crying, she told me that she’d been out with some girl friends for the evening and that Jake, her partner, was doing the same with his regular bunch of buddies. Sophie had had some kind of disagreement with one of the girls and had decided to go home early. The problem was that when she got there, she walked in on Jake fucking. "No, thank you. The helicopter is waiting and we need to get to the airport. We're on our way to France day after tomorrow and we have a few things to do before leaving."Selina hugged her parents, and she, Arlene and Ann went with the Albrights to the helipad. A strangely subdued couple kissed their daughter goodbye as they boarded, then waved again from the helicopter as Reed circled the Retreat before heading over the mountain.As the girls came back into the Retreat, there were tears in. “Now” she thought and we climbed up to the recently darkened windowsill. Our vampiric eyes could make the gloomy room out clearly, I saw the mirrors, the wardrobe, the desk and the carpet, but most of all I saw the cheating whore that would soon feed me and the poor fool who had taken her home entwined on the bed, covers thrown away and underwear strewn across the floor.Eva slid her fingernail into the glass, which held for only a second under her immortal strength, she lifted the latch deftly,. I sat there in silence for a few seconds while I pieced it all together.Everyone has certain ... buttons. Not like a blender, but, like, there’s stuff that you can reliably use to manipulate them. Mom has an overdeveloped sense of guilt, and Lucy has an extraordinarily healthy ego.As well as that, there’s certain ideas that you just can’t get people to shake. For Mom, it’s talking about sex. No matter what, I’ve never managed to get her to talk about it.And so, instead, I decided to take.