“You are part demon Caleb; I sense the dark energy within you. I’m only trusting you because I have no other choice. My sisters are most likely de...ad now and any woodland spirit that could sustain me is nowhere near.” Arianna began to cry as tears of sadness began to flow in her eyes. She descended down and wailed until she landed on Caleb’ palm. He lifted her up as she trembled before him.“Come on now, don’t assume if you don’t know. Your sisters may very well be fine. After all, you aren’t. ‘That…that was incredible!’ Paula murmured, resting her head on Bobby’s shoulder. ‘It was, wasn’t it?’ he agreed. Paula turned, put her arms around him, and kissed him softly. It was a familiar, unthinking kind of action, something long-time lovers might do, and the fact she did it touched him deeply. ‘What do you want to do now?’ she asked. ‘How about getting something to eat?’ Bobby suggested. They’d been exerting themselves pretty heavily and hadn’t gotten around to eating since they arrived. “Okay. Dinner in an hour, all right?”“But I’m hungry now,” Reggie said to her, liking how her baggy white dress pants couldn’t hide her ass.“Learn to wait,” she said without looking back.Mikus motioned for his son to come to him. “This is good. Help your sister out, and that’ll go a long way to making us all more comfortable with one another, right?”“Yeah, yeah,” Reggie said.“And be nice to Alice.”“I’m not?”“Be nicer,” Mikus said. “Dinner,” he said, looking at his watch. “We gotta finish. “Yes, Pig dear, what is it?” She lowered her glasses down her straight nose slightly. “Man. Sitting room.” Her hulking butler grunted. Ambrosia smiled to herself as her butler stomped out of her study. Pig was wonderful and highly intelligent, but unfortunately not a man of many words. She whistled cheerfully as she bustled down the hall and the stairs to the sitting room. As soon as she walked through the sitting room door, she stopped dead in her tracks. Michael Flanagan was in her house and.