She had two good looking female cousins, but Angelina was a lesbian and so I scratched her off the list. Fiona was just recently married and she was s...ill a starry eyed, blushing bride so apart from using a date rape drug or getting her totally drunk and taking advantage of her she was a dead end. Besides, either of those two methods might bring things to light and that was the last thing I wanted. My revenge against Marie needed to be the same as my revenge against Tom. I needed to do it and. Take your niece in there and wait for me to come back."I shook my head, but June took me by the shoulder and led me out of the room. "Quiet, Jim," June said. "Aimee's in God's hands now." Aimee doesn't believe in God," I said, quietly.June said quietly. "She doesn't believe in the Judeo-Christian God, but she believes in her own concept of it."I reluctantly handed Joy to June.The tears that I had been trying to hold back started to flow freely. Aimee... my precious Aimee... was dying and I was. What about it?’ The happiness had gone from her voice, replaced by a brusque, almost harsh tone. Daniel felt his heart sink. Still, he had to persevere, so he forced himself to go on. ‘Well, I just wanted to say…’ He was cut off by the sound of footsteps approaching behind him, and Sophie calling out cheerfully, ‘Mike!’ He could hear the happiness in her voice, and it tore at him that Mike was worthy enough to make her happy and he wasn’t. It tore at Sophie too, she felt like an absolute. "Thanks, Grand Dad," she cheered as the massive man gave the driver the sign to go and the car, again, rolled toward the street.The excited blonde ran inside. "Christi," she cried, "it's a letter from Michael!" Again. Please do me again," Christi continued to beg as Kathy plopped down beside her on the living room floor. She helped her nearly-fried friend sit up then excitedly tore open the envelope and began to read aloud."Dearest Kathy and Christi," the letter began. "Oh, he's writing to both.