She didn't notice his fake hand until they gathered her luggage. Instead of holding a bag in the hand, he put it under his arm. She knew it was rude, ...ut she couldn't stop more quick glances at the hand as they walked to a funny-looking vehicle, a Hummer, her father said."It belongs to one of my bosses," he said."It's sorta boxy," Katy said."I don't live in my own house, Katy," he said as they drove away from the airport. "I live in what's called a compound, which in this case is three houses. I wasn’t happy being called away from my easel.Prof had our drawings in front of her. We handed them in on Monday and figured we were way ahead of the rest of the class because that phase of the project wasn’t due until today. We were almost finished with the whole project after our weekend. We really did do some work besides just falling into bed with each other every couple of hours.“These are nice work from both of you,” Prof began. I could just hear the “but” that hadn’t yet been spoken.. " No!" Shut up. There's someone at the door." A knock came from the front door. "It'ssister. Mmmm. Time to meet the real deal. Your family is coming together just atthe right times. Now, let's be generous hosts and go greet her."Tucker made for the front door. He'd warn Whitney something was wrong with hishead and she could go get help. He flung open the door and began to shout at hissister, but couldn't squeak out one word. She stared at his nudity, and hestared at her breasts. He wanted to. “Morning sleepyhead,” McKayla teased. Nat grunted a greeting and aked, “Where were you two?”“Hiking,” I said, which got me an amused look from McKayla. I made a couple pieces of toast and a new cup of tea before declaring my need for a shower and exiting the kitchen. I didn’t get very far before something on the wall caught my attention. It was a photograph of the McCarthy family, the kids on the couch and the parents behind. Alexis sat in the middle with her older and younger brother on either.