”The slender raven-haired girl leaned up to my ear and whispered so only I could hear, “Just like old times, Mikhail.”“You know about my past ..... our future? Why, why are you here?” I whispered back into her ear.“I sorta do, but I have no idea why. We can talk about this later, ‘kay?”“Ohh-ho-ho, definitely,” I chuckled as she pulled away from my face. I saw that she had a major smile on her youthful, slender, farm-girl face as she leaned in and gave me a sweet, loving kiss.With class nearly. “You three will be in college in the fall so we won’t need that large of a house,” Sarah said. “Dad’s reporting around July 1 and I’ll be closing our house here in July and moving our effects that last week. Do you know when you can move in at your school?”“Yeah, that’s something we planned to discuss, Mom, Dad. I told you Tom’s going there too. We’d like to share an apartment, some kind of rental; it could save us a really huge amount on housing costs—maybe as much as a third, Mitchell. .. I'll have it towed to my shop and it will be fixed by morning...." You lead me to your car and open the passenger side door. I continue to sob hysterically."Everything goes wrong when there's no one to help me....Mr Carlton you're a life saver..... I'll be sure you are paid back when my parents get home I promise...." You hand me a bottle of water that you'd had waiting in the passenger side cup holder.... I don't notice the slightly odd medicinal taste as I take a couple of long pulls. They had went a long way to bail Matt out of his troubles while he withheld his real crimes and drained much of their savings. They had a retirement to worry about and Matt had cut into a lot of what they had planned for. The only positive from the whole thing was that Matt freely admitted what a terrible husband, father, son and person he had been, and that he was addicted to gambling.Although Jared would like Meaghan there at his side, as long as the Matt MacDonald distraction was present he.