"Press, you know you can tell me anything. I've noticed it too. Our little Anna isn't quite the same. There are some memories she's lost, but at other...times she knows things that she couldn't possibly know."I nodded my head, marveling once again at how astute Amanda was. At the same time I still didn't want her to think that I was crazy. So I didn't tell her just how different Anna was."Press, I think you should spend more time with Anna. She'll be ready to go back to work soon, so I'm sure. When I came out my wife was in the bedroom and she asked if I was ok. I looked at her astonished and went to say thank you and then she cut me off telling me that I shouldn’t think that she didn’t agree with her mother it was just that she could wait ’til I was doing better to let me have it. Great. I went into the kitchen leaving my wife in the bedroom. I found a beer and turning to open it I saw my mother-in-law staring at me. I asked her what she wanted and she began in a whisper I guess not. “Pete, you remember my cousin Jenni.” Pete certainly did and said hello. Pete gave me a quick once-over, a wink, and then whispered something into Missy’s ear before heading to the keg.“He said I did an incredible job. You look really, really cute. Oh, and by the way, the guy’s name is Larry,” she said motioning to my newfound friend. “You should go talk to him. Pete knows him and I can tell you, he’s hammered. Easy pickings.”Missy gave me the “well, what are you waiting for” look before. Now, I think it’s time for you to leave. I’ll have my coachman take you home.’“With that he reached for his wallet, pulled out a twenty and placed it on the night stand. I should have been furious with him. He had just treated me as some kind of cheap whore; but I realized later that it was just his way of showing me that I was not in his class and that nothing would ever come of our affair.“In the coach on the ride home I took out the envelope and counted the money, with the twenty from before.