I heard each and every one of them, and with each one of them came a resounding cloud of love that I had never felt before. It made my stomach ache an... turn in knots and my hands sweat while clutching at his shirt. I didn’t know what to say, but I figured it was time to say something. I couldn’t hide from the truth forever. “Daddy? I’ve always been scared. I’m sorry. I just didn’t want to admit that Mama was gone. I’m 18 now, I know, but I wasn’t ready for her to go away yet, Daddy. I wasn’t. Other than that, I had to wait for the cops before I could get any more information.I guess that this was a slow day as far as the cops were concerned. Two uniformed cops showed up within 15 minutes of my 911 call, and a detective was there within another 10 minutes. Another person, a woman, showed up with a camera right behind the detective and started taking pictures. The boss showed up with a lawyer only a couple of minutes later.The boss, his lawyer, and I were shipped off upstairs to. "What did that mean? Was she really on the pill? Were we not going to do anything? What did Mary mean? Why was she being so mysterious?Mary walked over with a smile on her face and held out her hand. "Come on..." she said. She led me towards Kat's bedroom. "You've had a lot of excitement in the last two nights," Mary said, smiling up at me. "How many naked women have you seen?" I started to count them in my head, when I realized Mary had meant it as a rhetorical question."I think you have a. There had to be others helping him, real others and not just figments of his imagination.So either there’s a whole crew of whackos out there, in which case where the hell are the rest of them, or it’s door number three—which is that somehow or another Hugo’s for real and has come through about three hundred centuries or so to wind up in my living room. Maybe some kind of suspended animation, he got frozen in a glacier and only just woke up? But no, that doesn’t fit what he’s been telling me,.
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