My grandfather, brother, mother and a young woman met me at the airport.Grandfather is not well. He looks old. It's nice to be home. Will looks prospe...ous. And the woman, beside him, is a knockout. Mother is drunk or out of it. Maybe both.I hugged my mother, then Grandfather, and was surprised when Will really hugged me. My grandfather and Will immediately saw that I had changed. My appearance had changed. I was much thinner and I no longer looked delicate and 'pretty'. But it was my eyes that. This guy had her complete and undivided attention. Mari always forgot about that quirk of hers. She was smart and intelligent enough to know quite a bit about lots of things; she was a c***d that witnessed the birth of the internet age after all. Her deductive reasoning skills were something she never really thought twice about, but somehow managed to always scare people away from her online. _______________ ~I’m sorry if I freaked you out. I tend to get super excited and just blurt off. " She said she would call her father on Monday and tell him to go ahead with a sale.Dan watched as Cindy prepared breakfast. She moved around the kitchen with no waste motion and he decided he loved just to watch her smooth muscles moving under her skin. She served omelettes, bacon, and waffles. By the time she was ready to serve, Pete had appeared. Like Dan, he was only wearing a pair of shorts.As they were finishing breakfast, the phone rang and Jan answered it. It was Sally Johnson for. There seemed to be more than just friendship in that look, and Lauren blushed, suddenly feeling a little shy as the tall, mousy-haired boy kept her gaze just a little longer than necessary.Gene had met each of the small contingent of agents still manning the Oasis years after Holly's father had died, and none of them stuck out as terribly interesting or unstable, at least on the first pass-through.It made no sense to him that they would have continued to operate without a leader. It made less.