She pursed her lips. ‘Are you coming, or not?’ She actually sounded slightly uncertain, as if unsure of me. Was she still giving me a choice. She ...ay have been giving me a way out, but I realised I didn’t want it. I wanted to comply with her. To please her.Self-consciously, I crossed the room and bent over her lap as I was instructed. I put my hands on the floor and shuffled to make myself comfortable. I’m sorry to keep going on about them, but I was very aware of her legs. Like me, she had on. ." She took the stairs quietly, one at a time, stopping to listen on each landing. The five flights of stairs seemed to take an eternity to climb. Several times, she had to step over bodies, the tops of their heads blown off. Someone living had definitely come this way. The lights at the top threw crazy shadows down the stairwell, they shifted as whatever waited moved.As she rounded the last corner, she was grateful that whoever had built the stairs had made them 'wrong' they spiraled up. Anthony was a tank of a man back in high school, massive arms, a huge chest and muscles all over. Now he was just big all over.A few other guys from high school were at the bar, but most of them stuck to their own friends.“So, you guys know anyone that is hiring,” I asked. I wanted to do anything that got me out of the house.“The mill is fully staffed,” Anthony said as he stood up, holding onto his pool stick.“That’s because it’s the best paying job in town,” Jason said.Jason used to be the. I will certainly agree to that,” Kei returned.The deputy spent several minutes talking with Kei, informing her that he was only there to keep the peace. He told them that he would speak with Mr. Yoshida and inform him accordingly. He also cautioned Kei to refrain from arguing with her husband and that she would only be allowed to take her personal possessions from the home unless her husband gave her permission to do otherwise. If there was a dispute over anything she chose, she was to leave.