“I want Sam to make up with Alex. She’s had so few friends like Max, but I was right to block her from you,” he said. “However, unless I get h...r to transfer to a university in another city, you’ll be here for her to run to.”“That I will.”“You won’t do the right thing?” he asked.“The right thing for me is a life that includes Sam,” I said. “I have to handle my shit better. I can’t let that arsonist burn it down. I want Sam in my life, and my door’s open if she comes to be in it.”“And that’s. He said that the next time he was in Denver he would pick up some stuff at a guitar shop to coat my fingertips. But he said that the best thing to do was to just let them heal for a few days so that the calluses could begin to form. But I like the guitar so much it's going to be hard to wait."Kathy glanced over at Bill, knowing that he had picked up on the mention of Dave. Sure enough, there was the beginning of a frown. "What about the girls?" Kathy interjected, trying to derail the direction. “You look like you’ve been face to face with a goddamn ghost.”Under my palm, I could feel the fluttering of my heart – pounding, pounding, pounding. I closed my eyes and tried to make sense of what I had seen. Slowly, I said: “He was in a war. A war as bad as the Great War – a war that had to be using Tripod technology. They were using gas and machine guns, maybe a heat ray...” I shook my head. “But it was against other humans. A European war, maybe?”Oliver hissed. Corrie put her hand over her. “Easy, there, pal!” she yelled back. “There’s this invention called a lock. I’m fairly certain they have them on doors in all homes these days.”“Thank you, smart ass,” Chad said, annoyed. “It’s just the more I thought about it, the more I thought Reina should be home taking care of our child, not in the office sucking my cock. I’m trying to be a grown-up about this.”“Again, if all Reina were doing was playing Office Whore, I would agree with you. But I rely on her for so much. I don’t want to.