They sure let me stay over a lot more than I thought was usual, although I had no way of knowing what was usual. When all this was sorted out, Ray wou...d probably never let me spend time with them again, if he even let me go back to school. Even if Ms. Epstein somehow got me away from Ray, I'd probably get stuck in foster care or an orphanage somewhere really far away.Eileen announced that she was just going to go to school naked. She asked me if I wanted to too. To my surprise, I actually. More Mancini."Kylie? What's wrong?" Dad always assumed the worst."You need better music on your phones," I joked, just to see if I could do it."I meant besides that." He chuckled, so I guess I sounded okay."I'm gonna come back home, I'm not feeling really great and..." You're sick?" he cut me off. "Do you need a doctor? What's wrong?" No, Dad..." I forced a laugh. "It's kind of a girl thing, you know?" Oh..." and then "Oh! Right, I see, well sure come on home." Uh..." Oh yeah, you need a ride. I’d look right through them every time, but I sure liked seeing you watching me, and I loved doing that for you.’ He idly traced the outlines of the orchids that he could reach, and Kayla didn’t mind, she actually liked his appreciation of them. Her orgasms came to her quickly in succession in the heat of the loft. She cried out each time to let him know, and he pressed himself to her as hard as he could to help her. She hummed in between them almost continually. Josh loved it, but he couldn’t. That night, in bed after the saloons had closed, I took the cigar box from the top shelf of the chifforobe and handed it to Rebecca. She was touched, “Oh, Flint.”There were 66 letters, tied in a blue ribbon, the latest one on top. Rebecca turned the stack upside down and said, “I’ll start with the first one.” Rosie nodded.Rebecca leaned under the gas lantern and squinched her face up real pretty.I couldn’t tell you why, but her reading those letters aloud to Rosie and me was ... intimate, I.