"I know we can't -" I want to, too," I said."Really?"There was a light in her eyes now, a blue like the sky on a winter morning, a cold clarity that h...d faded since the discovery of the child. It ignited to blue fire when I nodded desperately."Oh, daddy!"She threw her arms around my neck. I kissed her cheek, her ear, her neck.The water sprung on in the bathroom and the shower door rattled shut. Five minutes.Katherine kissed me back, tugging on my shirt, easing herself down into the couch. I currently drive a Caddy, a 97 STS, and love it. My home is bigger than anything I could have imagined … not a castle, but huge, with five bedrooms, three baths, large study, family room, etc. After being married for three years I was becoming bored. Gary would go out of town every week to car auctions in bordering states, (we live in Oklahoma.) and I’d be left to myself for days at a time. One night I was in the mood for a drink so I got dressed up and went to a bar not far from. That is when things started to go horribly wrong.You see, Maryanne was my Maid of Honor and she through me a real blowout. I had three strippers, champaign, a limousine and one hell of a good time. Remember when I said that we always had to one up each other. This was no different. I vowed to spare no expense and set up the biggest raunchiest bachelorette party in the history of our city.I rented an old building on the outskirts of town. When Maryanne and I were little girls it was a strip. "Jimmy! I'm so glad you're home!" Jim's mother's voice was thick withemotion as she clung to him. She had barely changed at all since Robyn hadlast seen her. Rita Harper had always been a neat, trim, and stylishwoman. She was the kind of mother all the other kids admired. Bob hadalways been proud that Rita had assumed the role of proxy mother to him.Now she felt a lump in her throat as she wondered how Rita would receive astranger into her home.Rita reluctantly pulled away from her son and just.