I’m just not used to anyone using that particular tactic to get what they want.”The light turned green, and she took a left onto South Cooper. “...ou said your girls would be worried about you when you left Friday night.” She glanced at me with a knowing grin. “You can’t expect me to believe they don’t use their feminine whiles to get their way when they want something.”“Oh, well, yeah. They do.”She laughed softly and took another left onto West Abram. She turned immediately right into a parking. This is what he was born to do.”The surgeon stepping out of the operation ward, wearing a confident smile, interrupted them.“Doctor, how is my son?”“Don’t worry, he’s just fine. His bullet wound was one of the cleanest I’ve ever seen and the damage to the interior of the lung is surprisingly minimal. He’ll have trouble breathing for a while and he won’t be able to move well, but he’ll make a full recovery in a month at most. I must say, considering how long ago he was wounded, how much blood he. " Why?" I'm not a ball and chain, I let him go out with his boys. He goes out every week with them." He wants more freedom?" Yes" Linda leaned back on my scarlet couch, then crossed her long brown pins. My eyes followed the hem of her dress which rode high up her meaty thigh. As she talked her red platform heel bobbed in the air. "I said to Jake, Jake, you can go clubbin, but if you're not back by one, I'm locking that door." Seems reasonable, he's far from twenty one." You know what he said?". Wordlessly I crossed the kitchen to her, took one of her arms in a painful grip and all but dragged her from the kitchen to the living room."Bill," she protested as I all but threw her onto the couch in front of the TV "what the hell has got into you!" Don't say another word ..." I said in a low voice, then added "bitch!" Bill!" she gasped."Shut up or I swear ..." I spat at her, half raising a hand as though to strike her.Ruth shrank away from me with fear in her eyes, I had never struck her.