"Wow, hello, Jenna. How are you? It's been a long time since we've spoken. I've missed you. We really should get together," I said."What are you talki...ng about?" he asked."Those are all of the things you should have said before just asking me if it was you who got me pregnant," I said."Why?" he asked."Because that would be the polite thing to do," I said. "I haven't seen you in nearly two months. You don't call. You don't write. Whatever happened to Jenna, I love you?" That was all erased when I. “His name is Phil,” Rhonda said, rolling her eyes. “I met him last night.”I couldn’t help but sigh - although she was certainly far more pleasant to look at than she had been pre-tapes, Rhonda’s personality was yet to change. She launched into a rant about his (innumerable) shortcomings, and if I hadn’t been driving, I would have shut my eyes and just tried to drown her out.Fortunately, today’s tape was going to help with that. Day 3 - “All women should be subservient.”As much as I could, I. For a while I wondered whether it was genuine or just something he'd instilled in me with his evident mind-bending abilities, and I searched through my head mightily for any indications. Finally, though, I decided it didn't matter. He'd shown himself able to manipulate me a good bit, but he hadn't wrought any basic changes; I was still the same Nick Volker I'd been before. So while he might have played with my feelings some and tweaked them here and there, they were still my own, and it was. But we can't let anyone outside the family know. Can you imagine the panic? The government stepping in?"Zoe let that hang there. She knew her mother was picturing a dozen stories, a hundred movies, and when she shivered, her face paling, she nodded at her mother, and sent her a mental hug, warmed Zoe's love for her.Ailene sat back, her mind whirling. "So what now? What does this mean for the two of you?"Zoe looked to James, and James smiled at her. He shrugged.'We don't really know. I don't.