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the rest of the world, like those
dangerous criminals I help send to prison.
    Like those corrupt officials and
executives at unethical corporations who hired the cybercriminals to do their
dirty work so they could be ahead of their competition, so they have
information that could take down their rivals.
    Aunt Sookie’s Acting Academy was one of
their targets, and so was Summer after she inherited the Academy. You’d think
they wouldn’t care about a small acting school like Aunt Sookie’s, but they
did. It was an act of revenge, because of Summer’s mom.
    She busted them first, then I came in,
helping her through Donovan Dynamics as part of the government contract.
    What I found out would blow anyone’s
mind.
    What I found out would turn anyone and
everyone into a paranoid basket case.
    I intend to keep this knowledge hidden
as much as I could. No one knows any of it, except me.
     
    And Summer. She doesn’t know it yet, but
she will. If anything happens to me now, she would be notified to retrieve that
letter I sent her. The clues are in there. Let’s hope that day when she would
have to read that letter again never happens. But if it does, hopefully by
then, Summer would understand everything I did, everything I said was for her.
    *****
    I had to go see her. Although I was hurt
and filled with jealousy when I heard her sweet voice talking to Drew behind
their suite’s door; my entire being felt more alive than these last few weeks,
just being able to hear Summer’s voice.
    I did feel dead inside, cut off from my
family, my role at Donovan Dynamics, and from the one woman I’ve always loved.
So, it wasn’t hard for me to get out of my dorm room, get into my Prius and
drive up to the Pad.
    It was close to midnight, but I had to
see her.
    I was so familiar with the drive to the
Pad, as well as the Pad itself, I could navigate in the dark towards her house.
I parked across the street from the Pad when I got there, as to not draw any
attention. If someone was watching her, they wouldn’t notice anything unusual.
    Dressed all in black, I blended into the
night that surrounded the Pad, took out my own key to the Pad and walked in.
    Immediately the memories of me kissing
Summer, holding her tightly against my chest as I said, “good-bye” to her hit
me. How much I dreaded leaving her that day to go on a mission I may not
survive. If I hadn’t gone, I would be sleeping next to Summer at this moment,
caressing her, holding her and making love to her.
    Oh how I missed her…her warm soft skin,
her happy smile, how her beautiful gold-specked green eyes light up every time
she saw me.
    I made my way from the front door to the
living room where Summer, Drew, and I grew up watching television together,
playing video games, and hanging out.
    Pass the cozy, but large granite-top
kitchen where we’ve played and cooked meals for each other.
    To Summer’s bedroom where I once
undressed her and made sweet love to her.
    I held my breath as I laid eyes on the
sleeping form underneath the blankets. Even in deep sleep, she was the most
beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. Her beauty still takes my breath away.
    I walked up to the bed and watched her
sleep for a moment, enjoying the tranquility it brought me. “Summer,” I
whispered. “Summer, I’m here. Nat.”
    At the sound of my name, Summer sighed
in her sleep. “Oh Nat,” she said, her eyes closed. “Kiss me,” she said,
grabbing my hand and pulling me down towards her on the bed. I fell next to her
as she leaned into me, “I’m so cold,” she shivered. “Nat, cover me up with your
body so I can feel the warmth.”
    My
arms fell around Summer, pulling her in close to me. The feel of her in my
arms, the heavenly fresh floral scent of her hair, struck me with the need to
have her, to feel her entire body next to mine.
    “Kiss
me, Nat,” Summer said, searching my face with her hands as she leaned in to
kiss me. Our mouth crashed into each other with a hunger I thought