I won’t miss RR’s.“Are you going to put any clothes on at all today?” Mary asked as she came down for breakfast. I was already eating. I alway... woke up before her but she wasn’t far behind today -- Mom made waffles, her favorite. I knew she could smell them from upstairs.“I don’t know. I’m thinking about it. It’s not going to warm up until later today though.”“It was good thing you came last night.” Mary said.“What’s that supposed to mean?”“You never come with me when I go over to Grace’s. .. you don't understand..." I think I do understand," the man said. "You're playing the Game. I have half a mind to tell your mother about it. She might have broken my heart but I still love her and the last thing she'd want is for you to be involved in something like this." The high school counselor reached for his phone."NO!" Alina gasped. "Please, d-don't do that! She doesn't need to know I ... I can just quit. Okay? I'll quit right now, I promise! I didn't even want to play, I never wanted. She logged out of his Skype account and slowly rose. Yes, it was time to swim in the cove. It was the one thing she could do to keep their daughter calm until Don came home. ‘I know little one,’ she said to her belly, ‘you want your daddy. Well, he’ll be home soon enough. So, in the meantime, let’s go for a swim.’ Angel waddled down to the cove, stripped off her clothes, and walked into the water until her tail morphed. She floated in the water as she looked at their home and smiled. Her mind. He took me under his wing. I was his shadow and dedicated myself to learning everything there possibly was to learn. Unlike Becca, I lived for this place. There was nowhere I’d have rather been. Uncle Henry and I had that in common. And the bond that created between us only drove Becca and I further apart.Once Becca hit high school, she ignored me altogether. I don’t think we said a single word to each other for years. Once she graduated, she fled South Carolina without a trace. Other than the.