"See what happens, when a girl does not act like a lady?" Evy said in her most big-sisterly way. "Being a lady is no accident." "Who could be a 'lady'... around Carl!?" Deborah cried, as she scratched her scalp without thinking why. "You could!!" both Carl and his girl said at once. "Now, Deborah," Evy gently chastised, "Carl has sworn by all the Bibles in the house and at the church that he was to treat us like family. We are his 'Mom' and 'Sister', and little 'Brother'. And has he not kept his. Natalia was a single mother, Yekaterina's biological father was a young stud who did not want any family. He ran with organized criminals. Then she had a boyfriend who ran with organized criminals too. Her boyfriend, other criminals and the complete mafia group disappeared without any trace later. Perhaps it was a "mafia" showdown. Yekaterina's father disappeared in an independent event too. She lived alone with her daughter. Natalia told this later. So she wanted to leave Inner Asia, because. "That was the first one in our house," he stated with pride. "Actually, he wasn't," she corrected. "And you missed a few between Dave and Todd." Really?" he asked, feeling crestfallen. "Who?" I wish I knew," she said, "I don't remember their names. Some of them didn't even introduce themselves, as I recall." She sat back, and a dreamy look crossed her expression. "It started with one of Dave's friends, we had a threesome, and he -" A what? A threesome?"She giggled lightly. "Now you're upset?". "Everything. What are you afraid of, him or me?" "I'm not afraid!" "Aren't you? I'm changing, are you willing to see that?" "Changing?" "Yes," she said, and in literally the blink of an eye she went from being a ten-year-old girl to being fifteen. "I'm growing up." Another shift and she was twenty-one. "I'm not a scared little girl anymore." Another blink and she was my age. "I've grown up, we've grown up. You just have to accept that. You have to stop running, stop running from.