" She spoke confidently.The two Legislators simply nodded ... not yet comfortable with the idea they would have to take orders from these two women. T...hey knew that the Prefect's daughters were very intelligent and well versused, for the Prefect insisted on it, yet they had never imagined they would be taking orders from a female before this day.Jalersi noticed this right away and smiled to herself. "Legislator Matuarr ... why don't you finish saying what you were telling me when Athani came. ”“I know, right? She called on Friday night and said she wanted to go, so Mindy picked her up. Emmy really wanted to be there, but you told me Clark was going to be there, so she decided it was a bad idea. She’s decided to totally stay away from him.”“I think that’s best,” I replied. “Honestly, if she moves out of the house when she graduates, then she can do anything she pleases, but for now, living at home, she has to be super careful.”“She’s going to Taft, I think,” Liz laughed. “So you know. That is me.You see, I'm a forty-two-year-old happily married woman to a man that loves me. We have built a good life together over the last twenty years. It's the second marriage for both of us. Neither mine nor my husband's first marriages lasted all that long. Both less than five years. Mine, I was too young, and his wife died.I spend my days working in the garden and taking care of the house. I'm content for the most part. There is not much I want for.I am the only mother my stepson Eric has. . I'd be honored if you'd call me by my first name." John, then. I am Carlos," responded Igwanda. "What is past is past. 'I tell you before, ' as they say it. But to respond to your question: I simply do not know. Or— Amanda?" No," she said. "They've feigned friendship before. But ... well, the last was unnecessary. Not their style. Joe pointed it out, they haven't yet lied to us directly. They've concealed, pretended, had us for breakfast in terms of truth, but I can't recall anything that was.