Well, my family moved away.” Her voice lowered. “I really don’t have anyone.” She paused. “It’s fine... I’ll be fine.”“I’ll stay w...th you,” he said, even-toned. “Quite honestly, Amber.” He turned to face her direction. “I’d advise neither one of us go to sleep tonight.”“What? Why not? What are you saying?”There was another moment of brief silence. Cain broke it. “Truman Capote once wrote: ‘Dreams are the mind of the soul and the secret truth about us.’ There is a reason he wrote that, Amber. I could move them, but my right leg was very stiff. I found a button on a cord near my right hand and hit it a few times, and then set it down. Either it would summon somebody or not; in any case I didn’t think I was going to be able to get up and complain.The button must have been hooked up to something, because about two minutes later a nurse came in. “Welcome back!” she said cheerily, approaching me.I croaked out, “Hi!” but my mouth was dry. It took a couple of tries to get it out.“Here, how. Have a few beers, talk to the fellas, you know?" Georgie continued. "And those stupid sonsabitches are always talking about you, did you know that?" No." I sucked my lips and my head was down."Well, they do. Like they're all in love with you and how pretty you are, and how good you are. Sweet as your mama's cherry pie, that's you, Stephanie, and those boys are so proud of you." I don't..." I shook my head because Georgie wasn't making any sense."They don't have the balls to say it, but I know. ”I think we both knew that it was payment for something that might or might not ever happen. He told me to go before he had to spank the child I no longer was.When we got back to the house, Grandfather took us to lunch at one of his favorite places before dropping me off at my appointment with Sammy. It was a pretty good lunch at a small mom-and-pop burger joint.As I got dropped off, I had no clue as to what was going to happen. Walking towards the Anjo, I could see that it was already fired up.