But I jumped off that cliff, and I couldn’t fly any more. I died when I hit the bottom, I think. “Somehow, Vlad was there with me. He must have ju...ped too, but I don’t know why. My body was reborn in fire just the way you saw earlier, and I went over to him, and I phoenixed his body into ashes as he died.”“You made love to him to say goodbye,” Mac whispered, understanding completely.Lisa quietly nodded, sniffing back tears. “I think I must’ve just sat there for days after that. I remember. We'll have to look it all up and do more research for the final project because I'm not positive on all the details, but this gives us a good starting point." You just read and remembered this?" she asked. "Jason, I wish I had your brain!"And those were the words that changed my life. Since that time I've come to believe in a lot of strange supernatural powers. I still don't know for sure what gods or goddesses might have been watching over us that day, but at that very instant Steph's idle. I had just made the dreaded call at two in the morning for him to come and pick me up. I had promised I wouldn’t drink so I could drive myself home and I knew he was going to be mad.The phone rang and rang until he finally picked up; I could hear the anger in his voice, knowing I had woken him from being asleep. “Be outside in ten minutes or I am leaving without you,” is all he yelled into the receiver and my cheeks turned red in embarrassment.As I said goodbye to my friends, I began to stumble. “Sorry, I shouldn’t pry.”“I’m two months. I told the doctor that my husband and I had a brief reconciliation. Henry loves to tell me how this child will be his! I haven’t told him. It’s a girl.”“I-I can’t go on.” She deflated in front of me, but her nervousness had vanished.I filled the resulting silence. “Uh-um, I don’t know why Andrew hasn’t fucked me yet. I don’t think impregnating me is a thing for him. Maybe he respects his father just enough to let him have that part of me. For a while, I.