Someone was coming out. I watched carefully. It was a woman. It was Kelly. She walked into the parking ramp next door. I ran to my car, started the en...ine and waited. Several minutes passed. Finally Kelly's Mercedes S 550 pulled out of the parking ramp and turned north. I waited for her to get about a block ahead of me and then I pulled my Ford Focus away from the curb and followed her. My wife brought the luxury sedan home about four months earlier. I was shocked when I saw it and asked her. "Oops," she said. Alex shook hishead.When Lucy finally stumbled into the kitchen she didn't even acknowledgeAlex sitting there at the table all dressed up and cross as she headedstraight for the fridge. She took out a bottle of beer and then rummagedaround in the drawers for a bottle opener."Ah ha!" she announced triumphantly when she finally found it. She crackedopen the bottle and then took a swig and that's when she turned around."Oh..." Lucy said, her face falling when she finally noticed. ‘How do you know this?’ ‘The reader told me.’ ‘And Jay locked you up for madness.’ Relief flooded into the woman’s eyes. ‘Yes. You can understand my pain? I want to protect my son, but everyone thinks I am mad, and yet, I know that it is he that will eventually turn mad. Except…’ ‘Except for what?’ ‘Usually the curse happens when he has had a child. His brother was taken with no child, so the curse won’t continue if Jay doesn’t have one.’ Instinctively Sasha felt for her belly. She shook her. It was all up to Reggie since this was the first vacation she'd had in five years.I was joined on the balcony when Reggie settled into the chair next to me. We were quiet as we watched the morning start. We both started out a little slow, deliberately setting the pace of the day. No rushing, no gotta be here, gotta be there. This was a vacation.We knew we were heading east but, as far as a destination went, we'd play it by ear. We did want to stop in Mississippi and then go to Florida but as to.