“You’re beautiful sweety. I finally realized how grown up you are. You’ve turned into a beautiful woman.” Lily smiled. “Thanks dad but I’l... be lucky if I find a guy as handsome as you were when you were my age.” She felt the need to correct that statement. “I mean, your still handsome now just when you were my age you were super hot. Mom showed me the pictures of you two back in the day.” Jim appreciated the compliment. “Well sweety, you’re just as beautiful as your mother was, maybe more so.”. He was pronounced right on the scene—he didn't even make the hospital. Michael was forty-seven, two years older than Mom. I was twenty-six and Anna was twenty-three.Anna had gotten a job with a modeling agency right out of high school and was on a modeling shoot when she got the word about her father. When she flew back home I was there at the airport to meet her plane. She had left shortly after graduating to go to a modeling school in New York (much to Mom and Dad's dismay) and although she. " Yann looked confused."Papi, do you even read the status emails?"I laughed. I didn't even know I had status emails. "Ok. So how much is this costing me and how close to broke am I?" You not broke, Papi." Juan tsked. "It all comes out of the expense account."I frowned and thought about that. I set up the expense account when I first hired the boys so that they could run the household without bothering me. It flags me if there's a transaction over a threshold amount, but generally, the. Because it was nearing late afternoon, the sun was behind the house and that allowed me to peer into the window with a clear view.I recognized the man standing against the wall as my boyfriend and it appeared he was talking to someone in front of him, but I couldn’t see anyone else in the room. Then, with such intenseness, his face became still and his eyes closed. My heart stopped. I wasn’t sure what I was seeing. Then, suddenly, a second person appeared from below the window pane and it was.