...THE NEIGHBOURby BobH(c) 2020"You really think you have a chance with Mrs Holt?" said Bethany,sounding dubious."I really do," I said, giving my appe...rance a final check in thehallway mirror.My daughter gave a small snort of derision, adding a dismissive shrugof the sort that 14 year-old girls do so well. I sighed, feeling alittle hurt. Bethany had been resentful towards me over something forseveral weeks now, but I had no idea what and she wouldn't tell me. I'ddone my best in the five years. 'It is not so easy in these times and in this place to live as a woman, ' she pondered, 'But with my power I am able to do what many men can only dream of.'Born in Oxford she had none of the strict traditional notions of how things were done. Those notions had earned men before her both wealth and power, but she used her power to get what she wanted, heedless of tradition, and what she wanted right now was standing spread-eagled before her.~Why did you run?~ Elaheh asked in an attempt at. ”“Did you really mean, that you would kill hammer on sight?” she asked.“I made that stupid remark, when he was under the gun. What I really should have done was take the thugs gun, then killed him right there. I could have faked the gunman’s suicide.” I said.“So, next time you will get it right,” Janet said.“If I get it right, I’ll have the Super Pimp kill him,” I said.Janet got out of bed and wrote all night while I slept all night. At six in the morning I stepped into the bathroom and heard. There was nothing of Jack left that Jack recognized. Not the eyes that fluttered at him or those soft puffy lips that glistened in the light. Nothing. He was stunning or she was and that confused him some as he kept bouncing back between those definitions.Clothes do make the man! Jack thought and sadly, he noted, they can undo the man just as fast.How can "you" turn "you" on he thought with a touch of dismay. It was like looking at this cute little fox, getting all hot over her, registering all.