At Tim's suggestion she had taken on two partners, selling them a minority interest in the now highly-successful business. They both had been long-tim... employees, one a bartender and the other the cook. They now owned forty-eight percent of the business and would be paying her a substantial monthly sum for the next ten years. She had also negotiated a great deal with Tim and his partners for the purchase of the Shannon Rose, with Tim once again supplying the funds needed to buy out his. Well, shit, yes. What am I supposed to do? Lisa had chosen to stay on Chaos so I could come back unencumbered to do battle with her husband—my brother, Wilson—and rescue Cadence. No one expected Wilson to try to destroy the wardrobe with an axe and instead damage our portal. What was I supposed to do?"Lincoln," Cadence moaned. She collapsed into my arms and sobbed. I retrieved our hotel room key from the bedside table and pulled her with me to the back door. In front, I saw a car cruise slowly. The rest of the class laughed along and another day got under way in Andy Drayton's world.Regan tried to untangle herself from the bed covers when Ruth shook her shoulders."What?" she asked irritably and she kicked and flailed to get the sheets unwrapped from around her knees."Chemistry has been cancelled this morning," Ruth told her."Bitch," Regan muttered."Sorry," Ruth replied, thinking Regan was talking about her. "I would have just turned off your phone but I didn't know if you planned to. There was still an uneasy air about this, as if I was confessing to a crime."Kid, listen, everything you can do, I can do better. Everything you HAVE done, I've done worse. I think I have something for you," he said. He spoke a few words of Arcanan and pulled out a book that was too large to fit into his jacket without it having been noticeable before. It looked like an old, weathered textbook of some kind, with a deep blue cover and golden embossed text. He walked over to the bed and sat down..