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Anger surged through my chest as I stalked to theand turned the blinds down Taking slow steps so I wouldn’t wake Dad, I walked into the living roo pictures of Dad asleep in the recliner

"Get the hell out of here!" I ran to theand twisted the blinds closed

"What? What’s going on?" Dad tried to sit up in his seat

"It’s nothing Go back to sleep" I couldn’t disguise the anger inpictures of my father! He was sick Did they have no " He wrestled with the handle on the side of his seat "Is soot it, Dad I’ll tell the security detail" Grabbingin the driveway

"Becca!" The sound of a camera drew rapher was snapping pictures "Get the hell out of here! This is private property" I dug inthe police

"Stop where you are!" Becca wasthe cops, assle!" The other photographer ran past the house and toward a van at the end of the street

The cops said they would send a car out, but they wouldn’t be able to stay at the house all night I growled in frustration and asked Becca to stay and make sure no one bothered uard showed up to stay I grilled hi sure he understood no one was to coood arier No one should be taking pictures of my father Especially to sell to papers or tabloids When I realized itated I tried to relax--no reason to have hiot hih he tried to wave ht and early so I didn’t have to worry about hi someone check on him every day, but I needed to knoas okay

I didn’t say anything in the car on the way to ht, I didn’t argue Duvall seemed to understand my quiet and spoke to Parker, who had taken a seat on the couch Jess and Bert had already gone to bed, so the house was relatively quiet I showed Parker where the bathroom was and told him to help hi the computer, I searched for the specialist Alex had provided inforinally from Ger a dual citizenship He’d been written into many medical journals for his ith holistic and naturalthrough the articles for patient health and longevity While some of his patients responded well to his methods, others required a balance of the normal medicines with the herbal supplements

From what I could tell, he seeram tailored for their individual needs He apparently didn’t have a proble the more Western reat understanding of the and happy; even the families of patients who died seemed to believe he had helped their loved one’s quality of life

At soh all the paperwork about ht from Lilaria Before they left, their na to see an outline of every ancestor and their achieveot sucked in and didn’t realize howa historical novel, only I was somehow related to these people

Eventually I leaned back on the bed and glanced at ed myself down the hall to the bathrooet a shower Jess and Bert were both bathrooainst the tiled wall and let the hot water run over my back In less than two days my entire world had been turned upside down Not just tilted or spun around and confused, but turned coEvery direction I looked led down a path I was unsure about For years I had worked toward one goal, stayed focused on the one place I wanted to get But now that goal felt like it wasn’t quite right I wanted to know more about where I came froet the best possible care I needed to know if I was meant to sit on the council of a queen or if this was all just a weird fluke inI knew to be true Fauard

--Guns and Bullets Magazine

The car pulled up to the school and I took a deep breath Duvall looked back atthis time, ready for h the people gawking at uards at the front door wavedat h TVs they all knewfor my office, I went to Dr Geller’s I rapped on the door, hoping to catch him before anyone else showed up

"Come in"

"Wait out here" I looked at Becca and Duvall There was no co in this office by rimaced but nodded I’d take that small victory