She tossed the magazine across the room with a feel of hatred toward her. She had abducted her love and soulmate. Victoria often thought of strangling...the life out of her but knew she didn't have in her to kill Camille.Tired, she climbed under the covers and went to sleep. Her last thought before sleeping was, as always, Josh. She had vowed to get him back. Only death could separate them.She was so in love with him that not being with her made every morning gloomy."Darling, how would you like. “Argh! What the fuck!?” he exclaimed, the sudden temperature change prickling the skin all over his body. The Regent laughed from her gut, almost like a bark.“Forgive me, Dennis, I could not resist. It’s better to just jump in and get it over with.” He scurried out of the way as she leapt into the spring, the massive splash showering him with more hot water and the displacement pushing him away as the wave that she had created lapped at the side of the pool. She rose to chest height, her. She had Dad wrapped around her little finger, whereas I couldn't do anything right. Freud would have had lots to say about our family, the way he loved her, and saw me as a challenger.Anyway, Dad wouldn't punish her but he would take the belt to me in a flash. When Karen was about four and Dad was wailing away on me with his belt, she jumped between us and he accidentally hit Karen leaving big red welts on her arms and back. That I was already covered with welts got no sympathy, but Karen with. It was what he expected to find. Jimmy had told him while they were walking to the skate park that Jimmy would be getting a new skateboard today, and Tommy understood what that meant. He hadn’t gotten his equipment this way yet, but there were no secrets between the two best friends.Tommy was checking them out—the big man between the thighs of the fourteen-year-old blond boy, screwing the boy to beat the band—as an outlook, but he would have looked anyway. Tommy increasingly was able to see.