Mom had realized a step before, and was beaming joyously up at me.“Oh my god!” I gasped, savoring the feeling of my legs flexing to bear my weight.... I curled my toes into the carpeting, and groaned when I wiggled them. “Lady Jonias is a miracle worker.”“Well, don’t give her too much credit.” Mom said wryly. She swiveled on her chair, and opened her legs. Her blue dress hugged her thighs, becoming tighter and tighter until the material stretched past its elastic point, and snapped to her hips. My. ”She was back after two weeks and she was very happy.She changed a lot as her dress becomes smaller shorts and a t-shirt.I asked what happened on the trip.She said “Fucking.”“Something different!”“Yeah, a lot.”Then I found out she had two more piercings in her ear. I inspected them and she said, “You said I can have whatever I wanted.”I replied, “Yeah whatever you like.”“You have a lot more to see,” as she untied her shirt. Her belly button was pierced and below it there was a beautiful red. ”Tommy and George took off to the boat.“Bobby, you have GOT to see the garage,” I said. “C’mon. I’ll show you. Essie ... does Mel have the God Gun?”Essie reached in her pocket and handed me the garage door opener. “Lunch is at two ... is everybody staying?”“Bobby?”“Yeah. Miss Essie. If it’s not an inconvenience, we’d love to stay.”We walked out the kitchen door. “Bobby. Don’t use the front door again. I hate putting the butler out. Kitchen door is good enough.”“Okay.”We walked past the 1934. So we can do this one of two ways. Choice 1 is you sit your skinny ass back down and talk to us about everything that happened last night, or choice 2 is we drag you downtown in your bath robe, throw you in lockup with the hookers and dykes for a few days and if there is anything left of you after that, we will talk to you then.’ Mclean said dropping all pretense of civility. This woman was deranged with obsession and as dangerous as anyone who had killed Chad. I looked at her eyes and knew.