Oh, brother, here it comes, he thought to himself. He wasn't in the greatest of mood when he walked in the door. Work had been a bitch all week and wo...ld be for at least another week."After you eat dinner, I mean," Stephanie added, walking with him toward the kitchen. "The kids and I ate an hour ago. I'll get them started toward bed. You relax and eat."Darren barely managed a smile. Right, hit me with that and expect me to relax, no problem, he said to himself. He tossed his briefcase beside. My pre-mission research didn't tell me who had a CAP card among the foster home staffs. I was limited to "need to know" just in case one of Earth's governments seized me and squeezed me for information. Confed conditioning should have protected that information—but the Targeted Extraction Group operated on old human information security principles. I was angered by the accusation—the implication of abuse. The accuser wilted.It didn't matter. The extraction took just thirty minutes and then the. "Mister Benton, please come with me."Wayne looked pale and shocked, like someone had punched him in the gut. I didn't know when he had sat down but he stood up looking sick and left the room with Lyndsi. That left me, Linc and Ryan alone in the conference room with Marcus. The tension in his body visibly left him and then he said, "Okay guys, relax. What's happened here today was unusual, at best. Oh, and by the way, the formality we were using was only because of the situation Wayne put us in.. And you came physically. Mom kept finding you on the floor or asleep in the chair. That or you would just pop into my dream and it would be 'Rapunzel in the Tower' or whatever was playing at the time. By the way, I've been meaning to do this for a long time." She sat up and took my face in her hands, then kissed me very tenderly on the lips. Not like Shannon had but definitely not your normal brother-sister kiss either. When she pulled back and looked me the eye and said, "Thank you Jimmy, for.