! But had they?“Julian Willis, I absolutely adore you as a man and as my father. Please believe that and let it set the tone for the conversation th...t we are about to have,” she said. I didn’t respond. I waited for her to get to the point.“Today, earlier today, mom and dad and Bea and I had a long meeting. It was the most profound meeting of any kind that I have ever had with anybody about anything. And Father, please get out your dictionary and look up the word ‘ever’ because I am deadly. And surely the fishnet stockings are certainly eye catchers. But even more deviant, perhaps–is your hair–tied with two large, bright loony ribbons on both sides of your head, which lift and prop your strands outwardly in twin ponytail bunches. And I don’t know if it’s the resemblance of Chobits, or a cosplay character, or a younger girl in street-hooker fashion, but your visible appearance is very provocative. In other words, whether you seemingly look like a call-girl or not, I can’t resist. She slept better than she had in many years, and she awoke starving. She made pancakes and sausages again for breakfast, but only because the frozen sausage links and the pancake mix were the only suitable breakfast food she could find in the house. She'd have to stock up today. Tomorrow morning she'd feed her sons ham-and-cheese omelets and maybe a cooked cereal. Enough of the prepackaged junk Hilda had been feeding them. She had a few dozen sausages keeping warm in the oven and a. That’s what I mean by not being presumptive. Whatever my personal feelings, I’m paid a lot of money to put my job ahead of what I want or what I enjoy for a few years. My job is to keep Nick’s life running smoothly and I’m not going to do that by insisting we have a relationship if all we were was two people who didn’t want to spend that one night alone.”“Does that mean it could be more than one night if I want it to be?” Emily asked. “I’m glad to be invited on this adventure, but I feel like.