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anything. She didn’t even
know what she would say if she could. There was only so much a person could
take in and she was pretty sure she was at her limit…maybe even over the weight
load for something like this. She flushed when she thought of the shower she’d
taken before bed. Boss laughed again.
    “He does not join you in the bath. He simply
watches over you. You are not to fear him because you know that he is there
now.” Dusty snorted. “That is a habit a friend of mine has. When she is…disbelieving
something I have said to her, she snorts like that. My friend Michael, he does
it as well. He, however, is trying to break the habit.”
    “If You give her the bullshit You just did
me, then I can understand.” She sat in one of the chairs on her deck and
shivered. As suddenly as she realized she was cold, she was warmed. When she
looked at the man with her, He simply shrugged. As much as she wanted to ask,
she didn’t want to know even more if He had warmed her up. “Why Kip?”
    “There are many reasons I could give you, but
none will satisfy you. I should like to talk to you about what has happened
before this. Jacob thinks that you are upset with him because your sister has
passed.” Dusty didn’t answer but He didn’t seem to need her to. “She was ready.
I know that is hard to think of now, but things must go along as they should, and
though you do not understand them, it is important for the pieces to fall into
place to move forward. It is a timeline, you call it, a schedule of events.
Thing fall into place in the order they are needed to be.”
    “I call it bullshit.” He looked startled at
her but didn’t say anything as she continued. “Free will. I have it. My sister
had it, and I’m sure everyone has it. She had a free will to do what she did,
and I think someone should have been there to guide her differently. Why didn’t
they? You’re supposed to protect her…where was her protector when she was
selling dope? Taking drugs and leaving her only child to fend for himself? Answer
me that.”
    He sat down across from her and she had a
feeling He was going to be angry with her. Instead, He stretched out his feet
and smiled. “When you were seventeen years old you were set on leaving home and
taking up with a man that was twice your age who said he wanted to help you
with your career.”
    “He said that I had talent. I suppose he was
right, but I now realize it was just sex he wanted. I had talent all the same,
just not what he was talking about. Are You saying that I should have chosen
the other path, the one that had me going with him?” Boss shook his head. “Then
what? You’re making no sense to me right now.”
    “You were to do just as you wished. Had you
gone with him in his adventure you would have ended up in the same place you
are now, but you would have been much less successful and a great deal poorer. Not
just in money, but in trust as well. He would have hardened you for that.” Dusty
didn’t really trust a great many people now and had a hard time believing she
could trust less. “You would have been much like a hermit, I think. Working
from your home and never leaving it to interact with customers. It would have
made you some money, but not enough to support you and young Kipling.”
    “You can tell me if he ever comes to love
me.” He nodded. “Does he? Do you think he’ll ever come to love me, just a
little? I love him. It’s hard, really hard sometimes, but I do love him. He’s
all I have left of my sister, all I have left of anything really.”
    “He loves you now, Dusty. He just isn’t sure
what to do about it.” She stared at him for several seconds before she looked
out over the yard again. She’d had so many plans for her home. The building
she’d been about to buy downtown had been next on her list of things to do. The
rent she was paying was killing her and she’d never own it. And if the new
owners of her building were going to raise her rent