NixtheGoddess:Hey are you up?
Within a minute, there was a soft ding.
Thoth:For you, always. How was your first day?
NixtheGoddess: Better than expected, and worse.
Thoth: What happened?
NixtheGoddess:I met someone my father knew, but there is something fishy about it all. Brandon was bugging me all day.
Thoth:Were there cameras like we expected?
NixtheGoddess:Yep. Exactly like you said there would be… How did you know?
Thoth: Vince is predictable. What did Brandon do?
NixtheGoddess:Kept showing up. But it worked in my favor in the end.
Thoth:Why?
NixtheGoddess:Because I told my mom before work to call for a family dinner. I knew Shannon was still going to be throwing a fit, because that was just who she was. Whether or not she gets her way, she just can’t help it.
Thoth:Okay…? I’m still lost.
NixtheGoddess:He was there, giving me dying flowers, and I told him I couldn’t keep the job. And I won’t be his Luna.
Thoth: I still can’t believe he just asked you like that.
NixtheGoddess:Right? Like WTF… Anyway, I had my mom poke the bear, so to speak, and have Shannon lose her mind. Brandon walked me home to ‘talk sense’ into her and Morgan.
Thoth:Did it work?
NixtheGoddess:Right now he is currently pumping sense into her.
Thoth:???
I laughed out loud. Sometimes Thoth was lost.
NixtheGoddess:They are trying to be quiet, but the thumping of her headboard against my wall makes it pretty clear they are…together.
Thoth:He’s having sex with her? Seriously?
NixtheGoddess:Yup. Anyway, it doesn’t matter. This will give me some peace and I can work on getting closer to Rick.
Thoth:Good. The faster you figure this all out, the faster your dad can come back.
I sat for a minute nodding, like somehow Thoth could see me.
Thoth:Anyway, let me know if you need anything. I’ll get it shipped to you.
NixtheGoddess:… Are you ever going to tell me who you are?
I waited for a few minutes, but no answer came. Apparently that was a no.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Six months later…
