‘Where is everyone?’ Jason wanted to know. Melanie smiled. ‘Dad has Mari and your parents have the boys,’ Melanie answered. ‘And Leigh is o... a date,’ she added. Jason smiled and sighed. ‘Good because I have had the day from hell and I really just need some quiet,’ Jason groaned. Melanie waited for Jason to continue. ‘They aren’t firing the rest of us, but we have to take a serious pay cut, at least five an hour,’ Jason added. Melanie gasped and her eyes widened. ‘How’d your appointment go?’. It was all the shit and abuse she had been forced to put up with since her marriage to Ricky. At first she had been captivated by his bad boy image and it seemed exciting to be around him but that wore of about as fast as the honeymoon fantasy did. Ricky, she quickly discovered was a narcissistic son of a bitch who cared only about himself and in addition had no qualms about heaping all kinds of physical and emotional abuse on her.Over several years her friends first noticed the change in her. Itwas more what it represented. Their control over her undress and therefore overher and she knew the details of the mother-daughter rape-murders and wasbecoming horrified to know for certain these two, who now had her, were theperps, and how much they enjoyed making her writhe and fall with their sadistickicks and taunts. Page 10. ??????????? But mostly it was how they joked about what they hadinflicted upon the kid and her mom like they didn't deserve anything better.????????? 'Get the fuck. He crouched there for about an hour, watching her type and giggle when someone said something funny. Finally, she seemed to lose interest and flicked off her light. Damn, he suddenly couldn’t see, his eyes had adjusted to the light and all he saw now was blackness. He covered his watch light and turned it on, 11:51. He still had hours. His eyes eventually adjusted to the lack of light but he could still see very little inside of the room. Then suddenly his luck changed and a cloud cleared away.