“Oh, yeah, something about manufacturing, marketing, logistics, generating a trillion dollars in revenue, and so on. I’m on it. By the end of the ...week, boss.”Mark got serious, “Don’t kill yourself. I hired you because you’re a live wire, so to speak. If you die young or get sick because of working crazy hours, you won’t do any of us any good. I expect you to get out of work BEFORE dinner at the Circle, and also have lots of SEX with all your wives and other lovers in the Circle. Keep balance in. He was standing in my doorway, saying over and over, “Don’t Ray ... please Don’t!”I saw myself getting out of bed and walking up to him, but as soon as I did, he evaporated away from me.I cried after him, “Dad, d-don’t leave. I miss you. I need you. I miss you. I need you...”“Ray, RAY, wake up, come on Ray, wake up?” It was Susan. “Don’t worry, I’m here. I’m here to help you find out about dad.”“What’s going on?” mom stumbled through my doorway covering herself with a robe, “What is it,. I still think of you as that angel."Her laughter filled the room. Then she got this mischievous look on her face. "I know something." Oh? Like when I'm getting out of here?" Even better. Want to know a secret?"My heart leapt and I tried not to seem too anxious. "Of course I do. I love secrets."She smiled as though she knew I did. "Remember the two brothers that were on trial three months ago?" The ones that..." I didn't want to say what they did to their victims.She nodded a bit more seriously.. In fact, it would be a replay of the night I'd become EdenBlake -- only worse. Back then I'd at least had Eden's keys, herbillfold and ID, and I could steal into her house, crawl into her bed,and pull her covers up over my head. Now I had diddly squat! I knew Icould survive -- I was good at surviving -- but I'd just started tosettle down and accept things the way they were.Did this grotesque situation have a silver lining?The whole incredible business was too much to mull through on an.