Mike continued to stare at the fire. Danni stood and came over and hugged her. "I'm so sorry that happened to you. We don't have any right to judge you, though. I used to be just as wild as you were, or at least I would have reached that point if my little brother and my big sister hadn't intervened. But, you're right though. Mike is a very good man."

"You're a good man too, Matt," Emma said. "You're a pervert, barely containable and always grabbing some part of me or my sisters, or your own sister... uncouth, loud, obnoxious. But you've never hesitated to stand up for, and with...