You've been doing this awhile. You even act like a girl. I saw how yougot in the car, how you walk. Even still your voice is higher."I cursed myself y...et again for spending the last two weeks almost nightand day prepping. Without even noticing I had been slipping into it allso easily and hadn't even noticed. I tried to go back to my old voice."It was all a ruse. I started two weeks ago I swear." Even if I believed you, the way you kissed me, this is you I know it,Ashley." Stop calling me that!. After about a week she called me in my dorm room and she was hysterical and crying. Like most freshmen she was homesick and altho she'd always made straight-As she was convinced she was going to flunk out. I managed to calm her down and reminded her even an idiot like me survived freshman year, tho I ended it on extended final probation. When she was quiet I asked her if she would like to go out sometime. We had dated a few times in high school and it wasn't unusual to see brothers and sisters. As she said, she stopped at the café and picked up breakfast then took a cab back across town to the Winter Mansion (which her and Deity had proudly named when they were kids.) The house had always been big. Now that Caden was older and wiser it didn’t seem as magical as it had before but it was still excessively large. Bigger than what most people needed for a home. The outside gate was rusted and dark with age. The mansion it self was ridiculous with twelve rooms not including the dining. He was charming, suave, enticing. It could, would happen, almost without effort. However, this, this was different, a different kind of solace.He scanned the bar again and sat up sharply. There, just next to the vivacious blonde in the green dress, was his mark. He could, fuck, he would have her without a thought, but for them them to be next to one another was sheer fortune. The man was perfect! No more than five foot seven with shoulder's stooped by hours of soul-crushing office labor. The.