You can also take it off if you need to, but I had it designed so that you don't have to if you don't want to."She left it unclasped and kneeled. "I d...n't know how to thank you. You make me feel desired. Should I call you Master or Sir or what?" Whatever you want. I'll beat your ass if you're too disrespectful." Yes, Master, as you please." Get up. We're going to shore."She left it unclasped. I tugged it as I got off the boat and she followed. I could see my mom in the house. I stopped and. “Not yet. The only thing you need to bring is yourself.” She took his hand, openly delighted at his ongoing bewilderment, and led them to the elevator. After its arrival, she looked at her phone again, typed a code into the elevator’s numeric pad, and hit the button for the seventeenth floor. The door had barely closed when she started humming a strangely familiar tune.Luke’s tension dissolved into snorting fits of laughter when he finally recognized the melody. “Def Leppard? Really?“She kept. " It's not you, Gavin. It's me." What is it?" I can't get my hopes up. I can't get my hopes up."I glanced in my rear-view mirror. Phaedra was asleep in the car seat before we had left the zoo parking lot. "We have a casualty," I remarked and gestured backward with my thumb." Violet turned and looked. "She is adorable, Vi." I took her hand. "And you seem more relaxed than this morning." I'm impressed," she replied. "I think you were more engaged with Phaedra in one afternoon than Dwayne was the. Each morning I wake at 5:30am, make a cup of coffee with my treasured Keurig, and write about the events of the prior day. I used to write in the evening before going to bed, but there were too many distractions. I missed too many days. I find mornings, when everyone else is asleep, to be the most conducive time of day to write. Some days I can’t think anything interesting to write about, and on those days my entries are short. But when life gets interesting, I find myself lost in my.