" What about--" The asshole was trying to run out the back when a deputy nailed him. He's dead."I closed my eyes. "Parker, where's my son?" Scotty? He...'s still with your mother. Karen told her everything and your mom is keeping Scotty for the night. I think you'll be spending a few nights here anyway." Does he know?" I sobbed."She told him you got hurt at the restaurant, that's all. If you want to tell him, that's up to you," Parker said.I blinked back more tears. "I have to tell him. I have to. He got me off to the side to ask about protection. I explained that we had all been to the gun shop and range. The girls were all able to use both a rifle and a handgun. He smiled at me, saying to make sure that when we went into ports, we secured them properly so we wouldn't be questioned.Everything appeared ready, so I opened the engine vents and started the fans. After starting the engines, we disconnected shore power and engaged the generator. The surprise was Juanita. She was at the bow. " Cheryl looked at me curiously.I told her, "In front of her mother and my sisters a little while ago, I asked Adele to marry me ... and she accepted."Cheryl ... Mom squealed with delight and hugged me. Forgetting the game rules in her excitement, she said, "Oh, Ron Jon, I am so happy for you; and for Adele, too!" She kissed me on the cheek like a mother and hugged me like one as well. I simply enjoyed my mother's excitement for me for a few minutes without listening to any guff from the. A person told that they would find studying easier, found study easy. Stronger, they were stronger. Told that they couldn’t kill, they couldn’t. Told that they loved somebody, they loved. With a small bottle of the drug and the books the House of Chang was founded.The small bottle of the drug was long since gone, the flower it was derived from was now extinct. The volcano the flower grew on erupted a hundred years later. But the technique they called “fascination” and the study of hypnosis.