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    Then there was the young man that my still impounded car cut in two at the petrol station.
    And of course the very first one, the night of my sixth birthday with mum.

Chapter Six
     
     
     
     
    “Hi Mum, I missed you.” It’s gone nine o’clock now. After Jason left, I’ve sat and stewed about it for an hour, and decided that sometimes with problems like this a girl just needs to talk to her mum. I may have a mentor for times like this, but when your mum only lives a few doors down its much easier. Besides, I love this woman so much it hurts if I don’t speak to her every chance I get.
    “To what do I owe this pleasure?” Why do mums always say that?
    “I just wanted to ask a few questions. Is dad about or can we chat alone for 5 minutes?”
    “He’s in the study working on a speech for next week. He won’t come out until he’s hungry and we just had dinner, are you hungry?”
    “I just had dinner with Jason Burford.”
    “Oh my goodness. Jason Long Legs? How is he? Did he ever grow into those long legs of his?”
    I know when I’m 35 my mum will still make me blush at boy talk. I can tell her anything in the world, but still, it is mum.
    “Yup, legs look good. As does the rest of him. All except his Being .”
    “Damned?”
    “Dark grey, actually. And he was with Adam.” I get a frown at that. “Jones?”
    “The bully?”
    “You have a good memory!” I laugh.
    “I always have!”
    “Well, Adam’s Being is damned.”
    Mum nods slowly, “Tea.” She says, and sets about making us both a brew. Over a cup of tea I explain that after Jason moved back from Cardiff he had met up with Adam. This surprises us both as they weren’t really friends when they were younger. I tell mum about Jason’s expression when I asked had he killed anyone yet.
    “Jason used to be such a good boy. He always used to follow and protect you when you were young. Perhaps it’s your turn? But that does mean you’ll have to dispose of Adam.”
    “I know.”
    To my surprise, my mum tells me about a story about when she dated dad. My dad is not ‘Gifted’. He works for a big shipping company in the city. When they were dating, my dad was in the Navy and one of his crew had a damned Being . Mum had to kill him. When my dad later proposed, my mum didn’t feel comfortable marrying him without telling her secret. She even told him about killing the crew member. No surprise that my dad thought she was crazy and they’d broken up for a while. Months later they’d met up at one of Poppy’s mums ‘do’s’ and my dad told her he still loved her and would she recount her crazy story. She’d run out of there crying as she couldn’t be dishonest and Lady Howard had spoken to my dad. Mum has no idea what was said at that meeting but Lady Howard has a way of dealing with everything, she’s hierarchy. Mum and Dad were married a few weeks later.
    We had another cuppa while I told her about Glen and about Robbie taking care of the boy on the train and then I went up to my old bedroom. There’s nothing better than waking up to mum making bacon and eggs for breakfast.
     

Chapter Seven
     
     
     
               
    Adrian sighs deeply. He always has a strange look about him when given something to think about. Leaning back in the chair, he’s as still as a statue. If not for his breathing, you’d think a taxidermist had worked on him. We are alone. Robbie and Luke are food shopping.
    I’ve told him about Jason and Adam, brought him up to speed.
    “We need the others.”
              
    It takes about thirty minutes for them all to arrive and the waiting was done in complete silence. Adrian is patient. I’m not.   I’ve got so many questions spinning around my head, it’s a wonder I didn’t break anything with frustration before the others got here.
    Poppy was the last to arrive Thank God she was shopping in London for the ‘do’. When she enters, she brings with her eight