David carried on getting to know Alex.“It’s lovely to meet you, Alex. Hannah’s told me so much about you.”“Did she tell you I asked for a la...ge G and T?” Alex replied sweetly.David chuckled and beckoned the barman over.“Large gin and tonic and a bottle of Prosecco, please, three glasses. My tab.”Alex hung her coat on the back of her chair and sat down.“I told Hannah you’d find out she lived here in the end,” Alex said in an easy tone.“I guess so,” he replied. “It’s a big city, but even so.. I never really knew much about Riley and her daughters until things fell into place and then I got to know them all very well and very intimately. Maddie was the wild child. She smoked. She drank. She cursed. She even did a little partying with the wacky stuff from time to time. Because Maddie was so very wild, her older sister, Samantha, often looked for every opportunity she could, to distance herself from her younger sister. Both girls had two things in common. Both were cute as hell and. Gail thought she was hallucinating. The woman had nothing to worry about. The controls were cold and dead; when Gail thought about them, she knew she could activate them, but she didn't.She sat at the dining room table, long after she finished breakfast, thinking. Her cousin Steve appeared a little after eight. He grinned. "Up early, cuz?" Yes," she said evenly."Still hoping for that Nobel?"That was a bright spot; in spite of the fact she knew her sixteen-year-old cousin was jerking her. We then went to the pool and the water was great, another couple was there lying out by the pool but the wife had nothing compared to my mom, even her husband was looking at my mom as she walked into the pool area.She dove in the pool and I joined her. We were laughing and talking of old times in our pool at home. The couple got up and left and we were all alone in the pool, secluded from everything around us. Then my mom jumped up and pushed me under the water, and started to wrestle around. I.