" YOU will find him a girlfriend who will teach him properly. Someone that knows what she is doing and what makes her feel good. Someone that is not s...upid enough to have any diseases. That shouldn't be too difficult even with your slut girlfriends, especially since Nicholas doesn't seem to be doing badly at all despite you not telling him a bloody thing about what to do."Dad did not make idle threats. Rebecca really would not be able to sit down for a week. Rebecca was stunned. She climbed. And there was no guarantee that old house was still there. Or it might have been renovated and the money discovered and removed then.Molly suggested Daphne be told to track down a certain man who had been her boyfriend in high school and relay that time they had come across a skunk eating a dead dog. They all agreed that was memorable -- but even if he confirmed it, it might just be him being agreeable, perhaps hoping to make friends with an attractive young woman. But they could phrase it. ‘Come here, Charlie.’ Those words cracked her feeling of absurdity. They were real. Nathan just said them. She dug her hands into the quilt. Sudden paralysis was a real thing. Some people could just wake up in the morning and not ever be able to move again in their entire lives. Was it like hysterical blindness? Charlie’s mind would not stop racing. ‘Come here, Charlie.’ Chapter 26 Charlie remained still on the bed, watching Nathan in his relaxed posture. He made no threatening movements, nor. Alan isn’t in his office for more than thirty minutes when Judy steps in. “Can I help you with something, Judy?” he asks, looking up from the paperwork on his desk.The secretary is hesitant for a moment. “I ... I have been thinking about how I broke my rules...”Immediately fear begins to well up inside Alan as he starts thinking the worst. Did I push too far? Is she going to quit because of it? Should I have just left things how they were and let her initiate it? He just doesn’t know where to.