I’d not noticed before, but she had good teeth. ‘But…’ she began, and stopped. ‘He said…’ again she stopped. ‘You’re not…’ and a...ain. I began to wonder if she would ever get a complete sentence out at all. ‘Rachel,’ I said more gently, since she now seemed to be in shock, ‘I have fancied you rotten ever since we were in school together, but you have always been way out of my league. You have never ever showed the slightest interest in me at school: you were into the football players, and Gary –. “Kent is supplying four detectives for a week and I have the first four you met working on your request as well. They have a grid of the area and a plan,” the note from Len said.To help in that line, the two trained investigators from the DHS started today, ready to go to work. Emmett Casey and Wayne Thompson were also trained on how to use the facial recognition programs. They had a lot of work to do and the files were still coming in.To help them I had six pictures for them to run the base. ’ I fell back on the pillows beneath my head. ‘I’m sorry. Did you call me Regan of the future?’ She smiled again at me. ‘Aye child.’ She stood and picked up a goblet from the table beside me. I did a double take. It was a real goblet. Old, and was obviously made by hand as it had the look of beaten metal. ‘Drink this,’ she said, and obediently, I did. It was sour and I nearly vomited it all back up. ‘Good,’ she soothed as she took the goblet from me and sat in the chair next to me again.. I did the drinking and tripping and the sexin’ and then I’d had enough. I really don’t regret it though, I had a good time then and it led to who I am now. So, I went to college, but since my dad was putting me through, he basically checked the courses I signed up for to make sure I was on the right path: his path.’ ‘So, I take it you didn’t follow that, huh? ‘No, definitely not. And I don’t regret it a bit. Dad was a lot of things, but he never seemed very happy. All I know is that I haven’t.