Like they did in the old days. Don't you read?"Cindy blushed and smacked her dad. It was a long running joke between them that when Rodger read, he li...ed historical novels, and when Cindy read, she read physics and math texts.Christmas Eve was a quiet evening for the Circle. Karen was missing, but Sandy, Helene and Davyn were there. Ellen and Kim were also there, although Sensei and Nikki were not. Since Nikki was a new cop, with no family, she was covering Christmas Eve and a lot of Christmas. We sat up watching TV for a while. There were some steamy scenes and I wanted to switch channels.“let them be, uncle!€ said Deepa, “you are getting disturbed or what?€â€œwell, in the company of somebody so sexy, one does get disturbed” I sighed and winked at her“jollu, uncle!€ she teased.She suddenly got up and hugged me. Her closeness, the sight of her breasts, the exotic smell of her body, aroused me and I also hugged her tightly. We looked at each other and I held her and. No, wait, I want to move with you next year. No. Next year, you, me, separate places, but in the same direction? Good grief, you’re rubbing off on me.”Jacob placed his fingertip on my nose. “You want to have the ‘What are we doing? Where are we going?’ conversation? Because I came prepared this time. Arguments locked and loaded.”“When we had the official Meet the Parents dinners last month for Thanksgiving--”“Even though we’ve already known each other’s parents for years,” he acknowledged.“It. Oh yeah, she isfour and a half thousand years old but other vampires have been known to outwit her several times in the past. She practices Black Magic and that’s where she gets most of her power from rather than pure vampirism.’‘So she’s a witch and a vampire then.’‘And a bitch at times! In some places she’s known as the Witchy Bitchy Vampirebut it doesn’t seem to bother her so she’s often ignored in our circle of friends.’‘And what about that barman down at the night bar, does he keep an eye.