“Doc Wilder wants to examine her. Cut her open and maybe do his magic, or else give her a nice happy lobotomy. It’s all fine by me. ‘Wheels’ i... the only one maybe smart enough to understand what’s wrong with her ... the crazy old guy is none too sane himself, some folks are saying. Wouldn’t know myself, dad’s the only one of us that has to deal with him, thank God!”There are hundreds of family legends about the near mythical leader of the Wilder family and my own father assured me that 98% of. She was just wearing a sweatshirt and some jeans cutoffs, some old shorts that really showed off her legs. God, I loved my mom's legs."Oh yeah?" She smiled, the way she does, like biting her bottom lip. It makes her look like a high school girl, I swear. "Let me see."She sat down at the kitchen table with me, leaning on her elbow so her hair was in my face practically. Mom smelled good, like baby powder."I gotta find quotes and stuff, like about women, or by women, or something," I. This was not agood way to wake up. Before I could recover, Mistress swooped down and clipped a leash to mycollar and began to drag me toward the door. I scrambled to my feet toprevent being choked and tottered after her on my ungainly high heels. Things were happening much to quickly for me to totally comprehend what wastaking place. The next I realized, to my complete horror, was that I was outthe back door and standing on the patio...... naked. Jennifer looped theleash around an upright for. ’ ‘About what?’ ‘About what we are going to be doing on prom night.’ ‘I have no idea what you will be doing. I’ll be going stag.’ Her face went pale and she said, ‘You aren’t taking me?’ ‘No Audrey, I’m not. You can go with the guy you went out with Sunday night. Or maybe you can give your good friend Monica a call. She always seems to be able to come up with dates for you.’ I got up and walked away leaving her sitting there with tears running down her face. Saturday Harlina Collins called me.