" Ned rubbed the back of his neck and fiddled with the buttons of his shirt when Cassie said nothing in reply. "She'll just hafta find her own partner... fer sure."Cassie sighed. "You started to feel something, didn't you?" Uh, I was prolly thinkin' of ya the while time..." This is what I was afraid of, Ned, that she can't control it." I wasn't gonna do anything with her, even if she up and asked me," Ned protested. "She didn't even really, like, come on to me. I mean, not directly." Not. Lili thought she might’ve heard a pin drop somewhere. Or maybe a leaky water faucet. ‘I was going to wait to speak to you privately, Olivia,’ Lili said evenly. Her heart was pounding. ‘Well, I would prefer you did it now. After all, you did ruin an expensive dress of mine you bitch,’ Olivia said, smiling. She loved moments like these! Lili clenched her teeth trying to hold back her anger. Her mother didn’t hesitate. ‘Of course Lili is extremely apologetic! Aren’t you, Lili?’ Her mother gave her. "Why don't you just run along now. I'm working on your case and, as I said, I have other jobs to do, too. I'll get in touch with you when I have something to report."She walked around the desk and stood beside me."Stand up," she said firmly."Who died and made you queen?" I asked. I had to crane my neck to look up at her. Who'd have thought neck muscles were connected to ribs? I couldn't hide the wince this time."What happened to you?" she asked."Nothing," I said testily. "I bumped into. ‘Craig, I think Kylie’s pack and play is set up in the game room, why don’t you put Danielle in it and then go upstairs to the guest room to sleep,’ Jessica suggested. Craig nodded and took his sister from Claire and headed out of the kitchen as Jessica took the waffle out of the waffle iron and set it on a wire cooling wrack. She caught Claire looking at her in confusion. ‘If I like the way they turn out, I can wrap them in saran wrap and freeze them and then if the kids want a waffle, I just.