I will call factory and tell them you start there tomorrow. Please do not visit JUMIST girls. I do not wish the programme to be disrupted more than it...has been already.”Liu Wei was not the only one experiencing a change of direction. Gary, Valerie Haste’s junior clerk was sitting in his boss’s office with a concerned look on his face. “But I’m quite happy here, Ms Haste.”“I’m sure. Sadly we can’t all be happy all the time. And since you haven’t succeeded in tracking down Madame Chao’s runaway. He was a farmer. He worked very hard and seemed always to have such high expectations of my mum. As I grew older I began to notice. Sometimes, I thought he could be quite cruel. Unnecessarily cruel. Always demanding. Never satisfied. I decided that I was never going to be like that with my wife, if I ever got married. Then, when Jenny came home from here, the way she was behaving to me, just reminded me of the way the way Mum was with Dad. How he had beaten her into submission or into the. I was in another room when he arrived, but I could still overhear what they were talking about. Your uncle asked if she would help him break you Claire. He told her how he planned on branding you and then taking your sprit, he said he needed more from you than just a slave, he wanted your mind and your soul as well," Isabel explained."That Godless bastard fell from hell!" Constance snapped."They're both bastards from hell!" Isabel commented then continued, "Well anyway, just to show him how. I wasstrangely terrified and excited at the same time.We continued on until early evening, and even with the bizarreconversation I kept getting this strange feeling. It is hard to describebut I could tell that Jen and our moms were treating me differently Icouldn't place just how at first. I finally figured it out though, I wasno longer a boy in their eyes. They were treating me just like Jen, as ateenage girl. That should have frightened me, but I had been so afraidfor so long of being.