"Is this the right thing to be doing?" Ellen stared at the Meriwether mansion as if it were something foreign to her. This was not the first time she was coming here. When they had been married, she had called this place her home, and then she had spent the night there recently, but for some reason, it was like going to her boyfriend's house for the first time. "Of course it is; why would it be the wrong thing?" Varian had been sitting in the car with her for the past ten minutes trying to convince her to go in and not go to the hotel, as she kept suggesting, but it seemed like he was not getting through to her at all. "I don't know; it feels weird. It is like I am going to my boyfriend's house for the first time, and you know this is the first time I am coming to her with us being in

