We ran them backward. And we ran them left and right. When we finished, we collapsed in a pile together next to the water fountain, too tired to make ...t to the showers until we’d rested.It was officially Labor Day weekend.“You want to just go to sleep until it’s time to pick her up tomorrow, don’t you,” Lissa said.I grunted. A weekend away with Kate. Visiting her family. What was I getting into?“I’d go get her right now if I could,” I said. “Is that terrible of me?”“I’d never have made it. ” I understood so much now and wished I didn’t. Yes, ‘to know her was to love her’. Eventually, if you were lucky, you saw through her façade. Sapphire Reynolds was a narcissistic child in a woman’s body – a body she used to manipulate and control people. She was also a disgusting tramp, an undiagnosed sociopath, a two-timing bitch, a cheater, a social climber, a thief, a... well, you get the idea. I suspected her of cheating and a friend confirmed my suspicions. When I confronted her, she just. The small woman took a deep breath, and a huge gulp of coffee.She said, "I am barren, made so by the same kind of brutality that this child suffered, yesterday ... and we, Jeremiah and I, want to adopt the girl!"The table fell silent! It was unheard of for a woman to speak of such things in public, AND in mixed company. As all at the table stared at Millie she began to shrink in her seat. Then, something quite remarkable happened! Millie gave a violent shake of her shoulders, sat up straight,. Like yesterday, when you asked Ralph if he had cleared his invitation with Helen.'"I needed to be certain, that's all. I couldn't say I'd go until I knew it was a valid invitation. I'll probably call her tonight to see what I should bring and sort of break the ice.'"That's just what I mean, Sara. You think about these things ... And then, Jerry told us about how he met you one night in the supermarket, and how at first he didn't tell Bev about you. He tried for a long time to keep you two.