” The weekend went quiet and onSunday night I overheard her talkingwith dad and he was apologizing fornot having any sex with her for thepast three ...eeks. I was going to risk my next move onthe following Tuesday. My class wasgoing to go to the museum of ourtown and after that we would gohome. I hadn’t told my motheranything and I wasn’t going to. We got back a little bit late but I ranback to the house. By now if she wason her usual schedule she would befast asleep. I kept my fingers crossed.. " I can't. I don't want you involved. If he found out I told you he'd kill you too."Flo gave a little predatory chuckle. "Honey, there isn't a man born that can kill me all that easy. I've cut a few men and shot one or two more who thought they could. Don't look so surprised, I was young once and lived about as crazy as you can. I've seen some hard times, some mighty hard times."Kassidi saw a flash of pain in the older woman's eyes. Flo tilted her head a bit as if she was debating something.. "Don't," he ordered glaring at the goddess. He knew what she would say if she spoke, this made everything his and her fault. His father was dead and his sister and mother were in terrible danger because of him. "What is it Ethan," Sabina asked softly. He stared at the table he couldn't bear to look at them he felt guilt crawl through him like a wave of fire ants. "Ethan what's wrong? What did you do," Lily demanded of Aphrodite. "I didn't do anything," she replied indignant. "Didn't you," Ethan. Get the various poisons, god knows what they might be, out of her system, then some behavioral stuff. About all I can do is give her a sedative to keep her calm. She's starting to come down, now. It's always hard to tell what they'll do when this happens, but it's almost always awful."He took a deep breath. Calm, calm. "Dr. Newcome, I want to be completely candid with you. We have a complex family situation, which unfortunately spills over to our monetary situation. Neither Susan nor I could.