Here let me get you some tissues.” I rolled over and pulled a few tissues from the box on the nightstand and handed them to him. He took them and st...ared at me like I was doing something weird.Then it hit me, and I started to giggle. “I am sorry, Brad, I’m still half asleep. I used to get the tissues for your father when he would masturbate. I guess old habits die hard. So go ahead and do it. I won’t watch if you don’t want me to.”“Oh my god Mom, it’s bad enough that you caught me doing it. Now. Since then, he’d been walking around the office acting like a man who’d finally put down a colossal weight and been reborn.That had been enough to get him a going-away party. If Arthur had been of a more dramatic bent, he could have wrapped himself in dynamite and taken out half the firm’s senior leadership with a flick of his thumb. He doubted many of them had been taken in by him acting like a man who had lost his job, his edge, and his mind all at once. They were here because they knew he. I didn't really believe it would work," I replied."You know that you can't let her go. Even if she promises, it's still bound to leak out," Hanna said."I know." Well, she can't stay with us. What about her family?" Hanna said. "And besides, she doesn't love you." Wait-a-minute! You're not aliens or something, are you?" Shelby asked."No. Narvenia's the only alien. That is if you don't count my security team that's in training," I said."MICHAEL!" Hanna cried. "Why don't you just tell her. “There’s been no one else since,” the flame-haired girl added pensively.“There will be, in time,” I offered paternal words of wisdom.“Did you ever hear from her folks?” I asked.She slowly shook her head. “I never made contact. Why would I. What was the point?”She was right of course, just as she had been right at the time about there being no recriminations, because the slut would just go down as a ‘missing adult’ who had chosen to start a new life somewhere else and had no intention of being.