Chapter 308

As they cuddled close together, she said, "I heard you calling me, Steph. I heard every beautiful word you said to me. I just could not reconcile the thought of those people attacking me, attacking you, or attacking our children to get even, someday in our future. I wanted to die, but you kept calling me back. You would not let me go. Then you tricked me with your story about Jemma. You called me back with a story about one of the two other people in this world I cared about, almost as much as you."

"It was your mother's doing, Patty. She could drive a sane person crazy, in a matter of moments. She gives you oblique hints, and then tells you to figure it out."

"My mom used to tell me stories about how she did the same thing to my dad. Even though they were only together for a relatively short period of time, she would drive him crazy doing it to him."

Stephano ran his hand over the area where Patty's hair has been cut off. It