The love he had always had for me. The love that that shithead I had married made me lock away and hide from the world.“Hold me again Tommy, like yo... did the first night you brought me home. Like you have every night since then.”As I turned, he twisted away from me, I guessed to turn out the lights. I pushed my knickers down and dropped them off my foot out of the bed. He noticed as soon as he cuddled up to me.“Where’d they go?” he asked, patting my bum again.I reached behind and patted his. Soon we were sure they were Germans since we could hear their guttural curses. We moved away from the creek and crouched in some tangled deadfall. Two grenadiers passed ten yards away, hacking at the brush with their heavy swords and cursing.We were about to stand and get back to our stream, when a commanding voice said, "Come oudt, hands up. Quick. Raus."I stood and turned. The sergeant who had knocked me down sat on his horse, ten feet away, his pistol leveled at my gut. "Vere iss d'voman,. " Look, runt, whatever I'm doing with this thing, it's only for sex and nothing else. I never had any desire to ask anything else of anyone." Asking for the sex is bad enough." Melinda frowned when Heather gave her a look again. "Yeah, yeah, I know. Same side. I'm trying, Heather. I'm not really mad at you, just the situation. I never wanted to deal with this shit. I just want things to go back to normal."Melinda knew that neither one of them really wanted that. Normal meant they would never. “Backpacks,” Dessie said. “I want one with a wide hip belt. My old one doesn’t have the belt, and it kills my shoulders. I can well remember how the straps hurt. I didn’t like that feeling then, and I probably won’t like it even more this time.”“We have a model that should help with that.” Eike nodded to his assistant, and the group moved to the area. “One size does not fit all,” he said. The female assistant helped Dessie find a backpack that fit, and Eike assisted Phillip.Once they had their.