But Tyler would beat the shit out of me and thats a chance I dont want to take again. I ride the bus back home and enter the house slowly. Immediately...I know Im not alone. Tylers behind me, how did he get there so quickly? I whirl around to see him staring down at me. God, you scared me, Tyler, I gasp, forcing as real a smile as I could. He doesnt smile. It chills me to the bone. You been seeing someone? he asks. The question shocks me out of my mind. What? I ask. Did he mean Jay? How could he. Through his abdomen.Slowly bending down over her back, poking her butt out towards Abhi.She held Sid’s waist and kissed him in the lower abdomen.She pulled one of her hand back and smacked her butt right in Ankur’s face, grabbing her skirt and pulling it up above her waist. And then another smack on her bare butt cheeks. And then grabbing Sid again tightly and continuing the long kiss on his lower abdomen. Sid and Ankur looked at each other and just then she whispered softly “Can I join?”Their. Van Luten was livid, his hands clutching the arm rests of his wheelchair. Charlie's face was ashen. Even my girls, who'd already heard the story before, were upset.Mr. Van Luten glared across the space between us. "And then... ?"I shrugged. "I killed him." That's it? You killed him?"I fixed my eyes on his and matched his glare with one of my own. "How strong is your stomach, Mr. Van Luten? Do you want your wife and daughter to have those images burned into their memories? I don't want my girls. The longer caravans were all headed South before the winter storms set in. We watered the horses and I held Cadence against my sodden chest to comfort her. I gave her a sip of watered wine from my bota bag and helped her back into the saddle. Then we were off again.There were two more stops. We chewed a hard biscuit and some jerky at the second and Cadence seemed to revive a bit. It was nearing dark when we finally approached the village and we had seen no one on the road since leaving the ford.