It didn't seem shocking or weird this time. It felt natural; almost as if we did it every day. Our kiss lingered a little longer than a conventional p...ck but I wasn't complaining.Our lips finally pulled apart, "I love you, daddy." I love you too princess," he said before giving me one more quick kiss on the lips.I guess he didn't mind that either since he did it twice. Dad left and I started playing with myself thinking of all the things that could have been that morning, imagining my dad. He was too busy looking at those cheerleaders -- not that I blamed him." Then he took a swig of the coke. I began to tell him the story of that pass I caught that won us the district title my senior year in high school, but I stopped. He -- just about everybody -- seemed to have frozen. I looked around. There was even a ball or two hanging in mid air. The damn stuff _was_ magic." Then Mark begins to change, only not the way I expected. I figured he was going to bulk up, get some muscles,. “Aha! Caught you with my wife, have I? You scoundrel! If I had a horse, I’d have a horse-whip to whip you with. How are you?”I tried to stop laughing. “Can I offer to buy you a horse? You’ll have to get your own whip.”“Well, we’ll see. I’m certainly older. Are you any wiser?”“You know what Jaques says in As you like it? I’m not yet at that seventh stage: ‘Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.’”“Nor am I. But let’s be more serious. You’re clearly better than I feared.”“Yes. Michiko. "Funny enough, nobody doubts his professional competence. But his finances are a shambles, his pretty clinic on the brink of bankruptcy. I let him know that I knew about his various problems, made him realise that he would not survive another scandal, and he surrendered." And, of course, you also made a hefty donation to his funds, didn't you?" Jake wanted to know.But Alfred merely smiled and said that money just lying about was quite useless, you had to do something with it.Elise would not let.