"You know what, Mom? I actually believe you do want what's best for me and Abbie. And Jack. I know you like Jack. I know this is hurting you to see al...l this. I don't think Dad has our best interests at heart at all." She leaned forward towards Sharon. "Please tell me you don't truly believe his actions are driven by his concern for us."Sharon started to refute Allison's statement, but one look at her daughter's face, and she knew she would see through the lie. "I ... I think that your father. Her hair was a light russet color. She was rather lean, though not without a pleasant overall shape, and when finally he saw her face his heartbeat quickened.She had a roundish face, yet lean around her mouth, with high cheekbones and thin eyebrows. Her nose was small and narrow and her eyes a vivid jade color. Her skin was also a faint pale sea green, not in an unhealthy way, but in a natural way.“You’re an elf,” he exclaimed, rather stunned by her aura. “Was it my ears?” she inquired in a. The Undead Guard covered itself in glory again, of course, but that’s normal enough. Two other towns are wavering, I believe,” Admiral Yanagi told me now.“Otis Orchards-East Farms and Newport, yes. When they fall, the whole of Stevens and Pend-Oreille counties will be ours. Only Spokane County will be left, and of that, only Spokane and Spokane Valley. We have them almost entirely surrounded. Once the trap closes, they will be unable to escape except by means of unconditional surrender. One way. ..how I didn't even move as he was cleaning me...it was clearhe realized it was true. He had violated the person he loved more thananything, more than life itself, in a way that can never be undone. Thatscar will forever be between him and I no matter how much time passesfrom here, and Char knew it.Through my grief, anger, hurt, etc., etc., (Insert negative emotionhere...I had all of them at some point over the past few days), I alwaysthought that there had been some sort of decision by Char,.