I've said it before, I love sex and I'm ... I ... I crave to be with you like that, Ben."I pinch my lips and raised my eyebrows. "I smell a 'but' comi...g..." But..." Adrienne began. "I'm afraid, Ben. I'm still afraid of losing you." How can you lose me if we aren't together?" I said in exasperation."That's exactly my point." Adrienne said, leveling her eyes at me. "There are some lines that are almost impossible to uncross, Ben. Before, when we were together, it was really just about great sex. She still has some left over, if she can keep it away from her mother. Corey’s child support tends to be shaky.’ ‘She has devoted herself to her child. All of her being to that child. Even with all the betrayal and hurt, I am glad that you feel that way toward them. When you married her, I knew you were the better person. I am still proud of you.’ A year after the shower, Corey was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. He died instantly. The only suspect was the husband of another married woman. “Why ask my sisters to leave the room before activating it though? Surely he knows that I’ll fill them in later.”“I guess you’ll just have to activate it and see, won’t you?”Sighing, I leaned forward and pulsed my mana at it. Having been activated prior, it was still on but was just waiting for some input. The moment I was done, my father’s image re-coalesced and he grinned.“I knew it would be you, my boy. After all, there wasn’t really any doubt,” he said. “Abi had never failed me, and I knew. I'm one of Dr. Hopkins' daughters, but if you don't know who Dr. Hopkins is, it's not worth the time to bother with trying to figure out if that's important. I just mention it because my last name is different -- I was married, for a while..." Her voice trailed off. "I'm not, now, I guess. There is no ex, and no kids. I'm nineteen." She stood and the camera panned and took her in to below the knees, but missed her feet. She did a slow but not necessarily graceful three-hundred-sixty degree.