16. Time to Leave
Drake was very pleased with his present — even more so when Gina told him I’d made it for him. She sat it on his head and adjusted it until she was happy with how it looked.
“You could be a prince, Uncle Drake,” she said.
“Yeah, a prince of darkness,” I mumbled.
Drake laughed. He never missed an opportunity to make me feel uncomfortable, or insinuate certain things. Gina thought it was funny. Even though we’d had the s*x talk on a number of occasions, she still didn’t understand why I felt it was wrong to have s*x with Drake. She understood why the act of love should only be between two people though. It’s just that she thought I should be able to spend one night with her father and the next with Drake. I kept telling her it wasn’t that I couldn’t, but I just wouldn’t
