Chapter 93

IZZY POV

Mom and I had always lived in resort towns.  She had lots of clients, many of them men who wanted to be more than clients.  I was no stranger to fancy restaurants and shopping malls.  I was frequently taken there by the men who wanted to impress my mom by including me in their attentions.  I usually just picked at the dishes I couldn’t pronounce and sold the items they bought me at the local pawn shop.  The gifts were always impractical and just reminded me of my mom’s self-imposed celibacy and the desperation of these men to get close to her.

This was different.  Gia and Tonya hurried to change out of the tactical pants they were wearing and into cute skinny jeans, boots and sweaters.  At my mom’s urging I threw on some jeans and a flannel shirt.  We left the boys lounging in the sitting room with both televisions tuned into the games.  A huge room service order was already in the works, and they