She supposed that mostpeople did that. She certainly did. And the thing she thought aboutdoing was to call Rod's father, Mr. Colletti. The number was ...n herschool directory in the drawer where her mother kept the potholders.She found the book and dialed the number.The phone connected on the fourth ring."Mr. Colletti?" she asked when someone answered."No." The voice was young and surly, and just a little bit tentative."Rod?"The voice turned carefully suspicious. "Yeah?" It's Lynn Flowers. Do you. I’ve got too much work to do here. Besides, who’s gonna look after you if I’m not around?’ I saw, if only for a second or two, a side of my mother that had only ever manifested itself when I had been really bad as a child. Now, with her displeasure at my previous remark barely contained, she hastily and sharply informed me, ‘Let me tell you something, boy! Don’t think that I didn’t learn a thing or two about this business from your father. You didn’t know this, but I’m the one who has been. Said you were “fucking losing it” over me going to Tina’s. And that’s a quote. What’s up Mel? You knew I liked Tina, and you sure seemed happy to have her under you last night. What the fuck?”Mel played defense, pushing the blame Nick’s way. “Hey, I was surprised you took off with Tina, but I didn’t make a big deal of it. You know Nick’s just exaggerating. You also know how jealous he gets, how manipulative he can be when it comes to you. He’s just trying to get at me.” Mel was faking it here,. She pulled away, but he didn’t let go. “Come on, look at me.”She lowered her head and looked at the ground instead.Darian raised a hand to touch her chin, and he lifted it to look at her. “I’m just an old man in a raggedy old cloak.” The small warrior put some gravel and cracks in his voice, and the impression made Medusa chuckle. “No theatrics, no heroics. I figure out what’s going on, and then I come back.”“You better! You better come back. We haven’t spent a single night apart since we met!.