They selected a stove made in China, a refrigerator made in India, a freezer made in Thailand, and a sink complex made in Romania. They also selected ...ome work tables made in Vietnam. They got the model numbers and headed for the warehouse.By this time, Mavis could handle the forklift well enough to stack what they wanted in the truck. Unfortunately, there was not enough room in the truck to take everything they wanted, so Helen moved the first truck out of the way and pulled the second one. Any hump they went over meant a bump on the other side. As with a dozer, there was no suspension to absorb the shock. Unlike a dozer, though, this thing would go. Or, at least, it felt like it while sitting virtually in the open and feeling any uneven dip or bump in the snow-covered and hard-frozen ground.After a few minutes, Morales stopped the vehicle, moved out of the driver’s seat and motioned to Jasmine. “Your turn.”“I can’t...”“Bullshit. Push the stick in the direction you want to go. The. A lot of the young folk left their blood on far-off shores or had it diluted by sea water as the fish consumed their remains. The older folk and women remembered the hard life on the scrabble farms and found life easier to manage in the cities. I grew up hearing about some of the good times from my grandmother and I wanted them for myself. Maybe it was pure nostalgia, but she made it come alive for me.The kitchen dances, the taffy pulling, the sewing bees, corn husking and yes, the fresh meat. She had just experienced the best physical sex in her life. Her senses were still coming down from that peak. That man out there on the sofa had filled a desire that she so totally needed filling. He had taken physical control of the night, and she was subject to his physical desires. She had done no leading once they entered the house. That was Ashley’s ultimate weak spot, to be physically under the power and control of a man. Not mentally, but physically. It was a purely animalistic need that.