I was thinking it was about time to visit it.The meeting with the commandant went well. I explained what I wanted to do, and he was very willing, thou...h just a bit surprised. I was going to do inspections of the watch houses throughout the city. No inspections had been done by a Duke, in uncounted years.The next interview, with the head tax collector, was a different thing altogether. I got the feeling he was reluctant to be here. He evaded most of my questions, and was hiding things. I decided. I was 17 when I was betrothed to my husband, a farm boy and the youngest of four sons, to a divorced father, who beat on his wife and was hard on his c***dren.When I first met him he was gruffy towards me, but when he had been drinking, he changed, and was more sexually suggestive, in fact his three brothers were not married and there was a general lack of female companionship, since their mother walked out, some 15 years prior.I confess to being flattered as a s*******n years old, my head spun. It was my first time, too. We hadn't even done anything yet, really. Mom walked in on us before we got that far, but we'd gone far enough."Lynne continued, "We were using a condom, but Dad totally freaked out. He took a week off from work and wouldn't let me out of his sight. I couldn't use the phone, or the internet, or anything. That's when it started."Christine pursed her lips and said, "I don't understand."Lynne sighed. "Dad wanted to put me on the pill, but mom was totally against it. Dad. There were other changes in her that bothered him. She seemed somehowcrueler, harder, and less sensitive to others' feelings than she hadbefore. Maybe Milo's death had hit her harder than it first appeared.Billy wished there was something he could do for her.Yasmeen had another reason for following Billy. This was actually thefirst time she had actually been there! Before today she had no ideaUNION was using the department store as a cover for their base. Shefollowed Billy into the manager's.