" Ugh, long story. I'm not from here. I actually grew up in Scottsdale and while it's very pretty here with all the green, the humidity is killing me,...and it's just so cold and miserable in the winter, and ugh, don't get me started on the bugs! God, I can't wait until I can afford to move." I can imagine. I'm a California boy myself. So how did you end up there?" Oh, the usual, I was young and desperately in love," she said in a whispery, fairy tale voice, then added sarcastically, "You know,. She had been in her mailbox constantly since they signed off. New messages came, but nothing from him. Then it hit her."Damn it!," she exclaimed aloud. "I'm HotMom!" Carly had momentarily forgotten the new email names Stephen had created for them. She logged on to that account and immediately saw a message from EagerSon, Stephen's secret email. Her heart was pounding as she opened the message.fr: eagerson to: hotmom My one and only HotMom ... I am burning for you right now. I've arranged a. I hold her close to me as she cries. She can’t move, and she continues to bawl in my arms. She probably saw a photo, a post, some sort of trigger. Or she could have just been thinking about high school, about him, about all the different ways he touched her, about all the pain he’s caused her, about all the pain that is still here, years later. About the pain she fears may never go away. She’s shaking in my arms and I’m all that’s holding her steady. Here, held so tight, she is able to let go.. ..and!", I broke down in a fit of sadness. Brad continued, "Someone was screaming upstairs. Then we smelled kerosene." She couldn't speak and kept repeating the same thing, over and over. 'Oh my god.' They suspected our father of wrongdoing. Our testimony against him didn't mean a thing because he hired quite a lawyer from what we later were told. For a few years, the two of us spent time with our temporary guardians while dad battled in court for custody. The time gave us an opportunity to.