It's been almost four months since... since Tabitha and I split up... and in that time, it's like I'm a faucet that's been shut off at the source. No ...matter how many times I turn the handle, there's nothing coming out."She avoids looking at me directly. She knows how much this hurts me... still... For weeks after our last fight, I was stuck in an emotional funk. It didn't help that I had seen it coming for weeks and weeks prior, I had stuck it out, hoping to find something to turn things. I watched as a furtive shadow darted away from the partially opened door. But I didn’t have time to ponder it, as Tasha slowly crawled up my body.“Mason...” She sighed deeply, as I felt her body melt against mine. “That was the single most amazing thing I’ve ever felt...” her words cut off into a small, contented moan, as I watched her eyes flutter shut. I had just enough sense left in me to pull the blanket up over us, before I fell into a deep dark chasm where, for the first time in my life,. .”Jake turned off the Tri-d. He went back upstairs to check on Béla and Katie. Béla’s body temperature was almost normal, now. He knew that Katie had done something, but she was still unconscious and couldn’t be questioned yet.Frank Junior was lying on one of the beds in the spare bedroom staring at the ceiling when Jake entered.“Trying to figure out what happened?” Jake asked, sitting down on the bed next to Frank.“No,” Frank admitted. “I know it was Katie ... At the same time that Béla’s. From its pristine state, I was sure it got as little regular use as ours. I took a deep breath. “Dave, there’s no easy way to tell you this. Melissa is dead.”“What?” he fired back. “Don’t fuck around, Bill, this is serious.”“I’m sorry, Dave, but it’s true. Her body was found a couple of hours ago.”“That’s not possible! She went to Girl’s Night Out with Jude and the girls from yoga.” He jumped up and grabbed his cellphone. “I’ll call her. You’ll see. She’s fine.”“Dave, she was positively ID’d..