"I take it that your parents finally caught on to Mary and Dannie's pregnancies?" Linda said as she pushed her hip against Ken's and gave him another ...grin."Yeah," Ken said with a sigh after he swallowed his first bite of his burger. "Mom came home early from grocery shopping and caught Mary with her shirt up above her belly. There was no way she could miss her swollen stomach when that happened." So while Dannie and Mary kept your mom occupied with their half truths and distractions you left. My now dead partners eyes staring lifelessly at the ceiling, something was missing, it’s hard to describe, but there’s a ‘spark’, that just seemed to not be there… and then there’s my son. Three years old. The single most beautiful thing in my life. Taken from me. The day he was born was amazing. I saw him emerge from his mother, sure, I have excessive strength, my speed is unmatched, but this was truly amazing. A life, born in front of me. Nothing could ever match that. Ever. His shock of. Hold on," and he grabbed my iPhone and entered a new contact. "There you go. Be careful with that – it'll only last a couple of weeks till I get a new throw away phone."I smiled at all the cloak and dagger stuff, and then realized it was the first time I had smiled in almost three days. And then with that realization, it went away again.Crystal. My new target. I needed to focus.I sat in my friend Simon's car, sitting outside of the apartment building, waiting for Crystal to emerge. I'd called. Kadren felt a tinge of guilt and disappointment in herself for assessing a man's attractiveness in such an inappropriate time. “Yes. I was on my way past this area when I noticed something going on in here. I thought I would be passing through as quietly as a mouse, but then I glimpsed someone [he waved his hand in her direction] being prey to those foul creatures’... awful pastimes…” He paused, as if seeing something in front of him, far away. “They delight in evil. I've seen the remains.