She stiffened up before slowly turning, once she saw me she visibly relaxed. What a weird reaction. ‘Oh Andy! Hi! What are you doing here?’ She st...od up handing the leaf to the baby who sniffed it vigorously. ‘Buying something for my girl. Are you babysitting?’ ‘No, this is my daughter Jewlie. We’re looking for a something to liven up our rooms.’ Daughter? I thought she was kidding when she said she had a kid this girl looked barely old enough to be out of High School but she had to be at. Hanging over the back of her chair it showed its lovely silk lining.His arrival stopped their conversation.Parker looked up and smiled. The two lawyers turned his way, but their faces held a frowning expression.Seeing the reaction of the others, the woman also turned in her chair. Of course it was his mother, but her face held a blank expression of puzzlement.She didn’t recognize him.“Lucian,” Parker said, rising from behind her desk. Her suit was a dark blue and as severely cut as ever.“Of. Babysitting. Want 2 come over?'Sierra, excited, texted back:'Thank god, yes! Dad has some new slut over.'After her mother died of childbirth (in which the baby, who she decided was a boy and named Cole, died too) it was just her and her dad. And a different woman almost every night. Right now, he had a new one- Jade- saddling him in his bedroom.'I'll walk over. B there in 10'She grabbed her coat, flung it on, and walked into the chilly night air. After being about halfway there, she stopped. If she doesn’t see it and live it for a couple of days, she’ll never understand. What’s happened here is simply fear of the unknown on her part.”“I hadn’t thought it all out like that, Tim, but you’re right.”And now it’s Friday afternoon, late. And me and Vicki are “being twins” today -- khaki shorts and sloppy Auburn T-shirts. ‘Carefully, delightfully disheveled’, Tim calls it. We’re standing here at the arrival gate, and Karen walked thru the door.Vicki squealed “Mom!” and ran to her, hugging.