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I blinked her into focus and tried to bring my mind back from the abyss “What? I’m sorry mom, what did you say?” She shook her head and just turned and walked away I shookout of a daze and looked down at my homework

I’d started a thesis on the anato to do withIt was lucky for h school was almost at an end and that I had already fulfilledcloser and closer to that deep dark hole that had opened up in front of me

A even though I see that it’s about to happen? Even when my mind tells me that it can be avoided? I know I’m at a crossroads There’s a fork in the road, so to very dark places

As someone ants to study the psyche of others, I cannot draw back, cannot shy away and pretend that this is not happening It may be useful in the future Before me, there were two very distinct roads I can hold on tothat had happened, including ly

Or I can stay away from that dark maw and try to cut out a new path for ravitating towards a feeeks later when I got the call from Mrs Masters Apparently, she needed me, after all

DERRICK

Lauren wore s weren’t going to be a weekly occurrence, and once I s She was the sitter the agency sent over a this period when o stir crazy if we didn’t have a date night

I was still not too jazzed, but I have to ad o-round True to her word, we kept the late nights out to a minimum, and we settled into a nice little routine It helped that I’d installed about a hundred nanny cams all over the house and could monitor them all from my phone I could even leave the app open and hear when my little ones cried

I was just getting used to the idea and no longer stressing each time alked out the door when the inevitable happened It was my parents’ anniversary, and they had come back stateside for the party of the year, to be held in their honor at the country club aues that they’d accuh the years

This was no ordinary anniversary get together with a few of your closest friends This was a gathering of the crème de la crème the who is who in the international architecture conitaries were on the invitation list, and most, if not all, had already RSVP’d

These are the kind of situations that ives her life In other words, she lives for such things, and there is nothing short of athe earth that can keep her away

And so with shoes and the new designer gown bought, all accessories present and accounted for, new Tux bought because the one I wore to our wedding just a few short years ago is apparently outdated, she floated around the house on air for days leading up to the event

It’s all she would talk about I can’t say that I blae her the chance to get dolled up and show off hernot one, but two children No matter that I’d have much rather stayed hoht was for my parents

And so it was, as luck would have it, that Mrs Cus came doith a dreadful virus and would not be available that night This in itself would not have been so bad had we gotten the news a bit earlier

As it was, the agency was booked to the gills, everyone who needed one had hired a babysitter to attend my parents’ party “I know!” My wife busted into the roo a bit frazzled ever since the phone call Her drea elboith the rich and fa she was equipped to deal with