." Why thank you, sweetie," Tammy said to Cindy."I wish we could've met under better circumstances." Cindy was smiling.A neuron fired in my head. "The...re's you a story, Miss Tammy, if you're looking for a positive one. Cindy's fourteen. Graduates high school in May. Gifted scholarship to Auburn. Talk to her."Cindy smiled. "He's proud. So's my foster mom." She motioned towards Helen. Helen smiled.Before they left, Gary came up and shook my hand, then Cindy's, and then they left. I looked at the. Having your name on the birth certificate is practically a confession.”“She doesn’t need to be born here. There are plenty of countries where she can give me what I want.” He is calm and unfazed.“What about travel papers? You can’t just take her out of the country. This will be much easier when she’s legally an adult. Just wait until she’s 18, then you can do whatever you want with her.”He laughs, a cold chilling sound. “I can do absolutely whatever I want to her, already.”Rachel snarks back.. ” Greg’s soft voice and words were calming to her as he stood up hugging her softly. Slowly she dropped her arms.“You don’t mind that I’m not as big as Jolene or Sarah?” She looked at the ground. Greg placed his hand under her chin, softly turning her to face him, he kissed her softly, gently but passionately. He broke the kiss with a smile and moved her arms from her chest kissing each breast softly, flicking his tongue over her nipples.“I think they are beautiful, they are perfect for you.”. ‘If that means that my boyfriend, whoever he might be, doesn’t want me to spend time with you like that, then that’s the way it will have to be.’ As she was talking, an errant beam of sunlight reflected off a wall fixture and caught Denise’s hair, lighting it up bright red. Stan was transfixed. He tore his mind back to what Denise had been saying… ‘So this means we’ll still be friends, yes?’ Denise softened her expression and smiled weakly at him. There was a curious mixture of emotions chasing.