This one sucked living it to begin with. Because a month before my beautiful daughters first birthday, her mom also decides to abandon my son and I, b...t takes my daughter away. Barely getting to see her until the summer she turned 3, when we signed for a shared parenting / joint custody agreement that worked out for a good long while. Meantime, my daughter, Ali, gets a new half sister from her mother. When Gina, Ali's mom, left her asshole of a boyfriend, I sorta ended up adopting Ali's. It's not really a big medical problem. Nothing to get worried about. If the treatments work, then great; if they don't, then I'm the same as before, which is no big deal. Okay, does that explain enough? I really have to go to lunch now." Yes, thanks for sharing that with me. I really appreciate your confiding in me. I'm glad we're friends enough to have this conversation, and I promise I won't tell anyone. You know I'm a gossip, but I also know when to keep my mouth shut, so don't worry about. Vampires, is the most obvious - but we haven't had a nearby case on them for some months after the squad 'evicted' a coven that was preying on elementary school children."What kind of Fey?" I asked inquisitively "Do I need stakes, silver, garlic - the whole nine yards?"Maria smirks that cocky grin again."You'll see Hartwell, you'll see."I shut the pocketwatch and shove it unceremoniously back into my pocket. Who even wears pocketwatches in this day and age? I asked for a more modern wristwatch. I'd been afraid atfirst, as I started trying to help with my youngest nieces and nephews,especially Novatani, Tammiana and Vincent.I was slowly getting used to the idea that my Sister Malissa really wasthe Headmistress of an all-girl school, and also that my Momma wasHeadmistress of one on Earth.Finally, I got up the nerve to ask Malissa about my father."Edith, he did some very, very bad things. He ummm, stole things from agovernment research program. Things that made it possible for.