You don't fool around, do you?"I smiled at the young lady and told her, "There are times to take it slow, and times that we have to really hit it. Thi... is a really 'hit it' time. Ask whenever you don't understand something. I've been in the business a long time, and I still have to ask sometimes. Call me if you don't feel comfortable. I won't be away from my cell phone. I'll call you as soon as I'm in range if I'm in the air. Wait for me."The four of us left the young lady in charge, and headed. "Eddie is going to use you until you bore him, then you are going to be just one of us girls; a common prostitute hawking your pretty arse for Eddie; making him money and occasionally making him come." She sneered at me."Just get used to it; learn to like it!" Learn to like it!" I scoffed."Learn to like being dressed as woman and used by these poofters in this jail; you're fucking joking! I hurled at her.Then I felt an enormous slap across my backside; the pain was excruciating."Oh god!" I. .. and lover.Despite the insulation of the carriage, the cold air seeped through the seam of the door, and I felt a chill travel down my spine.I moved closer to Devnik for warmth, and he allowed me to snuggle against him. I pressed my cheek into his shoulder, and sighed in contentment.Devnik drew his cloak around us, and held me tightly against his chest. I relished the feel of his strong arm around me. It felt like I was born to fit in the crook of his elbow.I looked up at Devnik. He was. Boy, had I forgotten.I read about Habitat for Humanity and how they build houses for people who don't have good homes, and I thought to myself, "I want to do that." I thought that by becoming a landlord, I could offer decent homes to low-income people who needed help. What the fuck happened?It just ... it just turned into a business. I got screwed over way too many times by people who took advantage of me. I had to learn to be hard on people, to evict people. Otherwise, I'd be in the poor house.