I got off the bed and went to the kitchen where I kept the emergency candles. I brought back two and a few matches. I wondered what she needed these f...r when I knew Maple could not see and I couldn't understand why Red would want to turn off the lights. Boy, was I wrong!When I brought them back to the bed, Red took the matches and as I held one of the candles, she lit it. "I heard that," Maple said and when I looked over at her, she was smiling. "Bring it on!"Confused, I looked back at Red. She. ”Ingrid stared at Tamara a moment. “Do you play chess?”“Chess? Uh ... yes.”“Good. Tonight, let’s play chess.”The Major turned forward and her body language suggested the conversation was over.Tamara wasn’t sure how to take Danielson’s words. A schism? Another schism? Victor’s betrayal seemed so far in the past that it was almost someone else’s life.The woman’s demeanor was confusing. On one hand, Tamara hated to be treated so brusquely. The Major’s tone was never pleasant nor welcoming. On the. She said this kind ofwarm tone would help me with the women who called The Women's Place reallyopen up to me so that I could direct them over to Rebecca and Stephanie.I started to realize that people weren't hanging up on me anymore whenRebecca called in to thank for me helping a new at risk client who neededhelp with food and rent money. Rebecca told me that this girl was scaredto call TWP but was happy to hear a friendly and supportive voice on theother end.WOW, I thought, I really made a. Father's men had undressed him down to his frilly shirt and he lay on his back snoring and looking like a beached whale, his wrinkled privates hidden by his fat belly. The girl and I stood beside the high bed, looked at him and then at each other. "Perhaps," she sighed, "you will have to be his substitute. Can you do that? Do his duties?"She smiled and licked her lips as her hand came to fondle my bulging groin."I can but try," I whispered back as I set to unlacing her bodice."He would not.