It helped to hear the assuredness in his voice."Ready on this side," Alex sounded more worried, but Julia didn't blame her. Tess didn't say anything, ...ut she must've given the Captain a sign of some sort."Attack," Captain Appet ordered. From the corner of her eye Julia saw the jets brighten from the others' engines, but her attention was focused on the Drake. As if it had heard the order, the monster was staring at the Captain's ship. Its head was reptilian, but the twisting at the corners of. Instead, he was starting to become more used to the young woman thatnow stared back at him from the mirror, his own male identity seemingto slip away with each hour, like a fading photograph.Sam looked down, noticing a large wicker hamper set beside the left-most sink. There was a card attached."Happy honeymoon," Sam read aloud, unamused, turning the card over inhis small hand.He carefully unlatched the hamper, the wicker-work creaking upwards asit opened. It was full to the brim with men's. On one particular day, while carrying the hand basket for Penny, I noticed a well-dressed but matronly figured woman shopping almost exclusively for booze. Well that’s all her trolley contained, bottles of spirits, other than a bag of dog biscuits. I guess her age was mid-fifties to late-fifties, about thirty years older than us. Her hair was clearly coloured to disguise her grey hair and had that odd blue tinge to it that older woman seem to go for. What caught my eye though was an expensive. Ethan shut everything down, then sat in his recliner in the dark. That was his mood, dark. Chris hadn't missed kissing him goodnight since that night she kissed him on the cheek. Things had changed, he could feel it.A scream, Ethan bolted up in bed and heard Chris dash across the hall shutting the kid's bedroom door as she started soothing the little one back to sleep. Glancing at his clock, he already knew it would be four a.m... It was the first nightmare either of the kids had since their.