She was wearing a stunning pink dress with thin transparent straps on her mostly bare shoulders. It had a small V cut down the middle showing off som... of her cleavage that I'd never gotten a really good look at before. It took a lot of willpower to not get caught just blatantly staring at that cleavage all night.She was really cutting loose that night because her daughter was staying with her father for the night so she could stay out as long as she wanted. I caught her on the dance floor. " Just remember," she said as she reached out and put her hand on mybare shoulder. Her fingers were warm against my chilly flesh. "This isyour body now, not hers. Maybe it's only a temporary situation. Maybeit lasts longer than anyone expects. However, you're not going to beable to make other people believe you're Charlene unless you'recomfortable being Charlene."I stared at her for a moment, then flashed a tiny smile of my own."You're awful wise for a sixteen-year-old, you know that?"She. That Patty girl, the one that Van had been after, had put on a pretty good ice princess act towards her. But everyone else had been very nice. It was obvious that Patty didn't want to talk about their shared knowledge of Van in front of Barbara any more than Julie did, so there had been no open warfare. The others had done their best to ignore the tension between the two girls, as they celebrated Bobby's return, albeit brief, to consciousness. Just being around the happy, supportive people had. “Ah, Bill,” I choked out as he came in; glancing around, he smiled widely and said, “Chandragupta’s agreed to sign.”“Excellent!”As Bill went over the details, Nilufar silently suckled. I grasped the terms of the proposal despite my attention focused on my lap, and after ten minutes he said, “Business calls. No rest for the wicked.” He glanced briefly around my office again and left.I pulled back and lifted Nilufar to her feet. My heart leapt as she smiled lovingly, and I pushed her to the edge.