“I noticed a necklace in the display case, and I’m wondering if you think Brad would wear it for me?”“Abby honey, he’d wear fossilized shit ...on a string for you,” Karen joked, and they laughed. She chuckled, remembering she said the same sentence to Brad. Karen noticed the same saleswoman attending to another customer as Abby approached the counter, eyeing her prize.“That one, the necklace that looks like a heart with a lightning bolt in place of an arrow, piercing it,” she pointed. Karen. ”“Would your wife be interested too?”A shadow passed across Chris’s face. “She died eighteen months ago.”“Oh, Chris, I’m sorry. I had no idea.”He smiled sadly. “No reason for you to have. She’d have loved it though. She was a contralto in the City Choir.”Grace touched his shoulder and moved on. Jeff Hardcastle was impressed.That interlude caused Grace to think when she returned to her office. The invitation assumed that she would still be singing with the choir. She needed to talk to Terry and. That child grew to become Necro."So I did have a brother.Mother continued on, "He had a good heart when we raised him, but amonth before you were born; he was abducted by a demonic horde of whichyour father belonged a long time ago. No doubt they corrupted him." Ok." Damn. I can't kill him then, he's Innocent. "Nice seeing youagain, Mother. Is this going to be a common thing?" Only if you have an issue you cannot resolve on your own. One lastthing. Quit being so cross with Crystalline. She's. Ithought this was really unfair as it all been her idea but despiteshouting up at her for a while I had to give up as she would not reply oropen the door so I got back in the car with Carlos to go to his home.I felt vulnerable and violated by Megan and wanted desperately for her tohug me as I stood there in Carlos's lounge looking out of his patio doorsat his swimming pool and its blue underwater lights.Carlos poured drinks."Hold me," I said and he came up behind me, put a glass of Jack.