She had to know how she looked and it was the hottest. Mom came back with the bottle, then Erin asked, "Could Casey come over and clean the pool, that...storm last night blew a lot of leaves in, there's twenty bucks in it for him." My stepmom looked at me as I was eagerly nodding my head up and down, not wanting to lose sight of this beautiful goddess, only about ten years older than me. So, I followed that perfectly lovely ass back over to her pool, got the vacuum wand out and net and went to. “Tell me about it, the Council have given the go ahead, but are not happy at all.”“Only way to do a Seer scan is to have them there physically.”“That’s what eventually swayed them; there really was no other way around it. Only one to object in the end was Clarence.”“Why, am I not surprised,” I replied with a wry smile.“Because you aren’t an idiot, John, unlike Clarence,” Roxanne replied with an answering smile.“I’m presuming he’s preparing his ‘I told you so’ position?”“In spades. He’s telling. A wide brimmed hat. A beard. Fake moustaches. More than enough stuff to disguise two nude bike riders. To disguise a mother and her son.It was just after eleven at night when I finally got home. I'd been in my room for only about five minutes before mom appeared in my doorway. She found me sitting at my desk facing my computer. All I had on were a pair of boxer shorts. I'd been waiting for her. I'd already started up my laptop and opened the home page of the Onancock Nudist Society.Mom didn't. She cradled her phone between her shoulder and ear as she grabbed some milk from the refrigerator. "Lyla," Holt's voice growled in her ear. "I don't know what you and your boss are doing but fucking with family is a step too far. I am no saint but if you start using Halle, I swear to god I will fucking destroy you worse than you can imagine. YOU FUCKING DUMB BITCH!"Lyla stared into space for a moment listening to the automated message asking if she wanted to return the call. Anger quickly.