" Katherine grabbed a napkin and helpfully began to wipe up the orange juice spill."But that's so very wrong! You're only a junior in high school. You...have a whole year and a half left before you graduate! I will not have my daughter drop out of school just to get knocked up!" I could do home schooling." You know nothing would get done - we'd just sit around and study 'sex education' all day, even more than we already do." Yeah, but with the stealth stroking and stealth sucking ... Can you just. I had no one depending onme. When my parents died, they'd left me a little under five milliondollars in the form of a thriving string of self storage lots. I'd soldthem and stuck the money in money market accounts. Good thing the prenuponly gave my ex $80,000 a year. I guess even that was gonna stop soontoo. After the divorce, I'd removed all but one mention of her from mywill. I didn't think the last remaining mention, telling her to kiss mycold, dead ass was going to endear myself to her. “She’s in conference with Mr. Davenport.” Darlene stood and waited for that information to soak in.“Davenport?”“As in CEO.”“What does she do here, anyway?”“Same thing as you, apparently. She reports directly to a C-level and runs around putting her nose in everyone else’s business. When you figure it out, let me know. I’m not sure I like her all that much.” I stopped and thought about that. My heart rate was slowing down and I didn’t feel like I was going to explode anymore.“Thanks, Darlene. I. Surprised at the Malay’s words and aghast at Jennifer’s confirmation Elizabeth sank back into her seat, almost unable to comprehend that women could be the source of such indignities and atrocities that Jennifer and the other girls had endured. ‘You have heard what was said to the four previous prisoners so I will not repeat myself. We’ll not waste time calling for anymore accusations. Have you any comments to make?’ The RSM seemed loathe to mention the new prisoner’s crimes. The Katoey stepped.