All of this was to protect her. My life for the past twenty-three years has been all about protecting her. Keeping her safe, not from life, unfortunately. I’d have to stand by and watch the pain she was in daily. Watching her kill herself working stupid hours, it narked me more than a little. But I couldn’t influence her, not even a little. She didn’t gamble, didn’t play the lottery, didn’t do anything I could manipulate to where she would be unsuspicious of a lump of money coming her way. I remember the day me and Davax went to visit the off spring, out of pure bordem and curiosity. Davax had been acting strangely for months, kept saying things that didn’t make sense. He had been the first one to start pulling away from our little trio. I had seen his interest in the girl he was meant t

