She sighed. "You look likeyou're a blend of the old you and me to make you look like my daughter,"she told me.As I looked at myself, I admitted that w...as the truth. "So I'm my ownfather?" I asked awkwardly.She laughed nervously and changed the subject. "Where's your computer?We'll get it connected with the Wi-Fi. I also put in an adapter surgeprotector over there," she told me, pointing to my desk from the otherdimension that she had set up in a corner of the giant room.I walked to my backpack. "Hey, sexy," I said, happy to see her smiling face on the screen. "How's my love today?" Happy to see you, frustrated to only see you," she said. Despite her smile, I could hear tension in her voice."It's going to be a late night for you, isn't it?" Yeah. We had a major failure today in one of my systems, and I can't leave until the team does." She looked up past her phone. "One sec," she said to me. Turning back to the other person, she said, "I don't give a shit what Larry's memo said about. Did you see the look on Phillipe's face? The man is completely smitten. The war was lost without a single shot fired. Today, bachelors the world over mourn for the loss of their fallen leader."Erik smirked."If anyone mourns, they mourn the fact that he is completely unaware of his infatuation. When Madame accepted that brandy from him, I thought he would faint! She is perfect for him. I just hope that this relationship will not upset Meg. After all, if Madame and Phillipe marry, she and Meg. No joke, I rushed to the bathroom and dry-heaved for fifteen minutes into the toilet. It was not my most elegant moment.Wes wasn’t there to take care of me this time. He’d spent the night at his mother’s, and she was likely cooking him up a grand breakfast. It was a work day for me, so he probably wouldn’t be dropping by anytime soon.I brushed my teeth, gurgled some mouthwash and hopped into the shower. I took a quick hot shower, and hissed involuntarily as I ran the soap over my breasts. They.