Scarlet got up to go to work, she was so happy. She always had this look in the mornings after they had made love. She never asked him where he went off to in the middle of the night and he never volunteered the information. The three of them got into the car and headed to the diner. Stephan drove in silence, he didn’t take his eyes off the road but he occasionally kissed her hand. He didn’t know what to do but he would wait to tell her until that evening. He had asked Vincent to play waitress yet again for Kayla. When Scarlet asked why he told her she wasn’t well. With all the technicalities, observed he hadn’t lied, she wasn’t well she was far from it. She was dead, the living dead to be more precise. Scarlet informed Joany that Vincent would cover Kayla’s shift that day, that way he

