Within the moment of a blink, she clutched her cousin’s arm and plopped her head against his shoulder. Just as Vasily and his companion stepped into... the hallway, she laughed, “Oh my god, that’s hiLARious!”Vasily paused and jutted his square jaw towards her, frowning. The woman followed his gaze then smiled at Carie and Eric.“Ow! What?” Eric flinched against her grip, but she held fast against his arm, giving him a firm squeeze.“Well we’re here! My humble abode!” Carie continued talking and. " I thought you were on vacation?" Del asked thinking he was missing something."I am, but it's turned out to be a working vacation so when I was offered a deal, I took it. You'll see, you'll see why I got it." Does this mean I have to pay more?" Dell was being his old cheap self."No, no, we shook on it didn't we. Besides my word is always good."Jan came over and gave me another full body hug that had all my parts buzzing and said, "Don't worry about that skinflint, if you need more to get the. .. he’ll just have a new step-father, and three step-mothers. The important thing is, in the view of the public, and Society, Jason will be the Grimes’ child.”“You,” Vida Newton said, “are to get pregnant as soon as possible. I’ll handle things with your father. The two of you will be married here, Christmas weekend, in less than a month. There won’t be a ceremony at the Karghold, for obvious reasons. Thad won’t have a problem selling that, not after the Max incident.”“Donna,” Madam Grimes. He was about to ask her when I spoke up. "Well, sadly your mother is going to take a short vacation."Lance seemed to pick up on that. "Was mommy bad daddy?"I sighed. "She did something that she regrets. When you are older I hope she tell you about it to warn you not to make the same mistake. But that's her story." Awwww!" both kids said simultaneously."I'll say no more, however, it does mean that..." I started to say."We get to live in the pool house?" Lance said excitedly.I choked off a laugh..