’ He liked the way that sounded. Work together, not that he was the boss and she was the deputy in disguise as a detective. And working for him, not...with him. ‘Not really.’ The two words were filled with a wealth of meaning. He pulled into the parking lot of the small convenience store that was on the corner of the road he lived on. It was tiny, carrying only the basics in supplies such as milk and bread, but it boasted a pizza oven and made cheap but excellent pizzas. He turned off the engine. "Okay, before you start freaking out, it's not what you think." "What the hell is this?" "I swear Kev, I didn't even know it was you when I first met you, I was just trying to figure out how to play and you started helping me-" "Y-you- it can't be." I moved the cursor over to the TeamTalk icon and hovered over it, and sure enough- *Logged in as Alessandria1207* -came up. I started hyperventilating a bit, my mind going blank from shock as I backed away from Allie and the laptop. "Kev, I swear, I. "Terri stopped what she was doing for a minute then she said to me, "Okaythen you wanted to duplicate your sisters style, but she was a girl,right."I nodded my head to her."Then you have always wanted a girl's hairstyle, I mean your sister had agirl's style and you wanted her style so deep down you really wanted agirls style, right." Her saying this in this way stopped me in my tracks, I could no longer sayno to her, she was correct I had wanted to have my hair looking like agirl's so I looked. I had started calling the group of people touched by the Device, “the family”, because we were all in the Secret together. Whether they were Loyal, Improved or my slave, they all talked and helped each other.Stephanie kept her downtown location, but quickly picked the building she was going to turn into her new main studio. She would run the Retreat business. Brenda wanted to run the catering facilities. She had surprised us in a few ways, but first by selling her house and moving onto the.