"Again, Hanna nearly dropped the phone. "Your boyfriend? He sounds old enough to be your dad... Where'd you meet him?"Vikki hadn't needed to explain t...at. It was obvious where they'd met. The same place Vikki met all her dodgy boyfriends; the Burke and Hare strip club where Vikki worked. Hanna had voiced her concerns for Vikki's safety when she first found out where it was Vikki was working. But Vikki had insisted it was all just a bit of fun.And certainly she hadn't come to any immediate. Out of curiosity, she had observed his rules in the past three months, and she had indeed noticed that fewer women under her care developed the dreaded childbed fever.Now she examined her charge. She had examined her before, and she knew her to be in excellent health. She could feel the dilation of her opening already, and she knew that her water would break soon.“You are already along the way quite far. Try to breath deeply to lessen the contractions. You are not ready to push yet, so don’t. I was just hoping that someone in this shitty little town was above that, but I guess I was wrong. Sorry, I wont bother you again."Her words struck me like a hammer, and I instantly felt like crawling in a hole for saying what I did. I just stood there a moment of two, then chased after her. "Hey Janet, wait up. Listen I am sorry for what I said to you. I shouldn't be like. Like you said, I hear a lot bullshit for those people, and I was being a little defensive. Please forgive me."That. She'd shower, get ready, and then wait there at home until it was time to go to school. I, by this time, would have left for work. I knocked off around half past two in the afternoons to be home for Selene. The part-time manager became a full-time employee. He'd proven himself, so I had no worries about leaving the business in his hands.We had separate bedrooms, across the hall from each other. Selene would sleep in hers, me in mine. My door was always open to her, and four times a week, on.